Diet Sustainability Analyses Can Be Improved With Updates to the Food Commodity Intake Database.

ABSTRACT: Diet sustainability analyses inform policymaking decisions and provide clinicians and consumers with evidence-based information to make dietary changes. In the United States, the Food Commodity Intake Database (FCID) provides a crosswalk for integrating nationally representative data on food intake from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) with data on sustainability outcomes from other publicly available databases. However, FCID has not been updated since 2010 and does not link with contemporary NHANES data, which limits further advancements in sustainability research. This study fills this research gap by establishing novel linkages between FCID and NHANES 2011-2018, comparing daily per capita food intake with and without these linkages, and making these data pub

SUBMITTER: Conrad Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9271970 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature