Nutritionally recommended food for semi- to strict vegetarian diets based on large-scale nutrient composition data.

ABSTRACT: Diet design for vegetarian health is challenging due to the limited food repertoire of vegetarians. This challenge can be partially overcome by quantitative, data-driven approaches that utilise massive nutritional information collected for many different foods. Based on large-scale data of foods' nutrient compositions, the recent concept of nutritional fitness helps quantify a nutrient balance within each food with regard to satisfying daily nutritional requirements. Nutritional fitness offers prioritisation of recommended foods using the foods' occurrence in nutritionally adequate food combinations. Here, we systematically identify nutritionally recommendable foods for semi- to strict vegetarian diets through the computation of nutritional fitness. Along with commonly recommendable foods

SUBMITTER: Kim S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5847509 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature