Serum metabolite profiles of habitual diet: evaluation by 1H-nuclear magnetic resonance analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Objective and reliable methods to measure dietary exposure and prove associations and causation between diet and health are desirable.

Objective

The aim of this study was to investigate if 1H-nuclear magnetic resonance (1H-NMR) analysis of serum samples may be used as an objective method to discriminate vegan, vegetarian, and omnivore diets. Specifically, the aim was to identify a metabolite pattern that separated meat-eaters from non-meat-eaters and vegans from nonvegans.

Methods

Healthy volunteers (45 men and 75 women) complying with habitual vegan (n = 43), vegetarian (n = 24 + vegetarians adding fish n = 13), or omnivore (n = 40) diets were enrolled in the study. Data were collected on clinical phenotype, body composition, lifestyle including a food-fre

SUBMITTER: Lindqvist HM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6885523 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature