Households with and without the presence of adolescents, probability of expenditure on food consumed away from home, according to ENAHO 2021: a cross-sectional study [version 1; peer review: 1 not approved]

Background: The objective of this study was to compare the probability of spending on food consumed outside the home in families with and without adolescents. Methods: This is a cross-sectional, quantitative study, developed with the report from the National Household Survey (ENAHO) of Peru for the year 2021. Households selected from the database included those with an adolescent and without an adolescent in its composition and who made expenditures on food consumed away from home. Households were selected according to number of household members, place of origin, sex of the self-reported head of the household, ethnicity, educational attainment, marital status of the head of the household, age of the head of the household, and according to the poverty variable. Results: Households with adolescents and without adolescents spend monthly in Food away from home [Peruvian Soles (USD), SD]; [216.1 (57.17), 3.82] and [159.1 (42.10), 2.94] respectively. The average expenditure (Peruvian Soles) on food consumed away from home according to the poverty variable (extreme poor, poor and non-poor) in households with the presence of adolescents was (46.28, 118.89, 258.33), respectively. This expenditure in Food away from home is higher when comparing it to households without adolescents. Therefore, there is a significant expenditure in Food away from home in households with adolescents. Conclusions: It is important to create a culture for purchasing food that does not harm health. Keywords: food, expenditure, adolescents, ENAHO, poverty.