the number of meals served based in redistributed food has been estimated to about mill in with about in copenhagen in oslo and in gothenburg based in the figures it is quite clear that the food banks are relatively more important for food security to low income people than to prevention of food waste although the rapid growth in redistributed food by matsentralen in oslo indicate that there is a higher potential however the combined effects make food banks important actors also with regard to food waste prevention and as one of several initiatives that are needed to cope with the food waste problem in society