Does cultural capital contribute to educational inequalities in food consumption in the Netherlands?

BACKGROUND: The importance of culture for food consumption is widely acknowledged, as well as the fact that culture-based resources ("cultural capital") differ between educational groups. Since current explanations for educational inequalities in healthy and unhealthy food consumption (e.g. economic capital, social capital) are unable to fully explain this gradient, we aim to investigate a new explanation for educational inequalities in healthy food consumption, i.e. the role of cultural capital. METHODS: Data were obtained cross-sectionally by a postal survey among participants of the GLOBE s... Mehr ...