A Scoping Review of 2020–2025, Peer-Reviewed Publications to Investigate Possible Relationships Among Burnout, Nutrition, and Nutrition/Food Literacy

This scoping review represents the first concerning 2020–2025, peer-reviewed publications to investigate possible relationships among burnout, nutrition, and nutrition/food literacy during and following the COVID-19 pandemic. 9 January 2026 searches were of the keywords (burnout OR job stress) AND (nutrition OR diet OR eating pattern OR food intake) AND (nutrition literacy OR food labeling) AND (food literacy OR health literacy). Eight databases were searched (CINAHL Plus, Google Scholar, JSTOR, OVID, PubMed, Science Direct, Scopus, Web of Science). With 160 returns, the included reports from these searches were from Google Scholar alone (n = 6). The addition of four relevant reports from the 3 June 2025 searches of “burnout AND nutrition AND (nutrition literacy OR food literacy)” increased the included studies to 10. Although 2020 was the lower date limit, publication of the results was between 2023 and 2025. The finding is that research con-ducted during this period reports co-occurring issues of burnout, nutrition, and nutrition/food literacy in specific populations. The primary discovery is that assessing the relationships among these terms was not the aim of the included studies. This lack of dedicated research on this topic presents an opportunity for burnout and nutrition re-searchers to investigate these relationships intentionally.