Modeling lacto-vegetarian, pescatarian, and "pescavegan" USDA food patterns and assessing nutrient adequacy for healthy non-pregnant, non-lactating adults.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) includes a Healthy Vegetarian Dietary Pattern (HVDP) with dairy foods and eggs as one of its three recommended dietary patterns for non-pregnant, non-lactating healthy adults. This study evaluates whether pescatarian, lacto-vegetarian, and "pescavegan" adaptations of the HVDP can be nutritionally adequate if modeled with foods recommended by the DGA.

Methods

The nutrient composition of these three alternative models of the HVDP were assessed at 1, 800-, 2, 000-, 2, 200-, and 2,400- kcal/day using similar food pattern modeling procedures as the 2020 DGA. For the pescatarian and pescavegan models, 0.5 ounce-equivalent of refined grains per day was replaced with seafood. For the lacto-vegetarian and pescavegan mo

SUBMITTER: Hess JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9941140 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature