Food intake biomarkers for green leafy vegetables, bulb vegetables, and stem vegetables: a review.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Numerous studies acknowledged the importance of an adequate vegetable consumption for human health. However, current methods to estimate vegetable intake are often prone to measurement errors due to self-reporting and/or insufficient detail. More objective intake biomarkers for vegetables, using biological specimens, are preferred. The only concentration biomarkers currently available are blood carotenoids and vitamin C, covering total fruit and vegetable intake. Identification of biomarkers for specific vegetables is needed for a better understanding of their relative importance for human health. Within the FoodBAll Project under the Joint Programming Initiative "A Healthy Diet for a Healthy Life", an ambitious action was undertaken to identify candidate intake biomarkers for a

SUBMITTER: Brouwer-Brolsma EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7144047 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature