A cross-sectional sequential explanatory mixed methods study was conducted among household food preparers to examine the association between home availability and consumption of traditional vegetables among resettled African refugees living in Queensland, Australia. Home availability of traditional African vegetables was associated with age, having a vegetable garden, employment status, and having a supermarket in the local neighborhood. Food preparers from homes with low vegetable availability were less likely to consume the recommended number of vegetable servings. Barriers faced in the food environment included language, lack of availability of traditional vegetables and lack of transport. All of these aspects contributed to the study findings that both individual and food environment characteristics may play a role in access to and availability of food and vegetable consumption of resettled refugees. Consumption of traditional foods among the resettled refugees continues post resettlement. © 2016 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.

Migration Resettled African refugees African traditional vegetables Household food inventory Vegetable availability vegetable intake

household refugee food consumption Australia demography Vegetables vegetable human Refugees middle aged statistics and numerical data Food Supply Aged language family size neighborhood Family Characteristics Residence Characteristics catering service Cross-Sectional Studies cross-sectional study Humans Black person African Continental Ancestry Group male food availability female Aged, 80 and over Socioeconomic Factors very elderly Africa socioeconomics food policy cross section employment status adult human experiment Queensland