Sustainability analysis of Finnish pre-schoolers' diet based on targets of the EAT-Lancet reference diet.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The EAT-Lancet reference diet is a healthy plant-based diet produced within planetary boundaries. To inform the food system transformation, we compared Finnish pre-schoolers' food consumption with the reference diet's food group targets.

Methods

Food record data for 3- to 6-year-old pre-schoolers were collected in the cross-sectional DAGIS survey. Ingredients of composite dishes were available in the data. In addition, we manually decomposed industrial products such as sausages and biscuits by estimating the shares of ingredients. We also estimated the consumption of added sugars and converted the consumption of dairy products into milk equivalents. We used usual intake modelling to estimate the mean consumption and the proportion of children who met the reference di

SUBMITTER: Back S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8854143 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature