1. Introduction
Ten percent of Americans are food-insecure. Few known studies have accessed college food insecurity via random sampling. An online cross-sectional survey (Food insecurity is a global health concern. A total of 13.5 million Americans (10.2%) have experienced food insecurity at some point within the last year [The USDA does not directly measure food insecurity among college student populations, but rather US adults, households, and children [Qualitative studies have sought to explore the specific factors that might lead to college student food insecurity and found that food-insecure college students are having to sacrifice their food budgets due to having fixed bills [This late adolescence and early adulthood period is characterized by those of college age and possibly living on their own for the first time [Understanding the profile of a food-insecure college student can potentially provide better insight to colleges and universities of how to pinpoint or target possible students that might be food-insecure. The goal of this study was to describe the profile of a food-insecure college student by assessing the prevalence of food insecurity, the history of government assistance, and food shortage contacts by food security status among a random sample of enrolled college students at a major southeastern university.