Reusability of Germany´s total diet study food list upon availability of new food consumption data-comparison of three update strategies.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The German total diet study (TDS)-BfR MEAL Study-established its food list in 2016 based on food consumption data of children (0.5-<5 years) and adults (14-80 years). The list consists of 356 foods selected for analysis in order to ensure ≥90% coverage of the diet. Recently, new food consumption data for children (0.5-<6 and 6-<12 years) in Germany became available, which raised the opportunity to evaluate the applicability of the MEAL food list 2016 on new data.

Objective

We tested the hypotheses that the MEAL food list 2016 also covers ≥90% of the diet of the new collected food consumption data, and that the selection of foods from younger children and adults was sufficient to also cover the middle age group (6-<12 years). Strategies for updating the existing fo

SUBMITTER: Kolbaum AE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10541319 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature