Assessing Diet Quality Where Families Share Their Meals: Evidence from Malawi.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Where families eat together from a common dish, the shared meal must be nutrient dense enough in each nutrient to meet the needs of the highest-need member.

Objectives

This study aimed to develop an aggregate household nutrient requirement benchmark that satisfies all members' needs in a context in which meals are shared and to illustrate how that metric could inform food and nutrition policy making.

Methods

We merged nationally representative survey data for Malawi in 2010, 2013, and 2016-2017 with individual nutrient requirements and local food composition data to compute the adequacy of each household's aggregate consumption given its demographic composition and primary occupation. To meet each person's nutrient needs at any level of energy balance, the

SUBMITTER: Schneider KR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8643595 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature