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Food literacy is a relatively new construct (Vidgen, 2016), which concerns “the everyday practicalities associated with navigating the food system and using it in order to ensure a regular food intake that is consistent with nutrition recommendation”(Vidgen & Gallegos, 2014, p. 50). From this point of view, food literacy could be understood as a particular shade of the broader health literacy construct (Gillis, 2016). In fact, health literacy refers to “… the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions”(Baker, 2006, p. 878). Alternatively, food literacy involves “the knowledge, skills, and behaviours required to access, select, prepare, and eat foods”(Velardo, 2015, p. 387). In other words, the food literacy construct explores the complex and diverse ways according to which people interpret and implement …