A Global Analysis of National Dietary Guidelines on Plant-Based Diets and Substitutions for Animal-Based Foods.

ABSTRACT: Discussing plant-based diets and substitutions for animal-based foods in food-based dietary guidelines (FBDGs) can be a key step in making dietary recommendations more sustainable and healthy as well as more inclusive. The existing large-scale evaluations of FBDGs do not assess whether and to what extent countries cover the broad spectrum of plant-based diets and have policy positions on vegetarian diets, including vegan diets, and whether they mention specific plant-based alternatives to milk, dairy products, and meat. The main aim of this state-of-the-art review was to determine whether and how FBDGs provide such information. An overall 95 guidelines and 100 corresponding countries were assessed via an exploratory sequential mixed method. This involved qualitative explorative content ana

SUBMITTER: Klapp AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9708321 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature