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Assessing the Quality of Simulated Food Patterns with Reduced Animal Protein Using Meal Data from NHANES 2017–2018

The nutritional consequences of progressively replacing meat products with plant-based foods need to be systematically evaluated. Modeling analyses provide insights into the predicted food consumption and nutritional adequacy of plant-based diets. We developed a novel methodology to simulate food pa...

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Autores principales: Vasiloglou, Maria F., Elortegui Pascual, Paloma, Scuccimarra, Eric A., Plestina, Roko, Mainardi, Fabio, Mak, Tsz-Ning, Ronga, Frédéric, Drewnowski, Adam
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10255158/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37299536
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu15112572
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author Vasiloglou, Maria F.
Elortegui Pascual, Paloma
Scuccimarra, Eric A.
Plestina, Roko
Mainardi, Fabio
Mak, Tsz-Ning
Ronga, Frédéric
Drewnowski, Adam
author_facet Vasiloglou, Maria F.
Elortegui Pascual, Paloma
Scuccimarra, Eric A.
Plestina, Roko
Mainardi, Fabio
Mak, Tsz-Ning
Ronga, Frédéric
Drewnowski, Adam
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description The nutritional consequences of progressively replacing meat products with plant-based foods need to be systematically evaluated. Modeling analyses provide insights into the predicted food consumption and nutritional adequacy of plant-based diets. We developed a novel methodology to simulate food patterns and evaluate diet quality. Meal data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2017–2018 was used to create 100 7-day meal plans subject to various nutrient and food group optimization criteria. Omnivore (reference diet), flexitarian, pescatarian, and vegetarian food patterns were modeled using mixed integer linear programming. The modeled food patterns used the 25th and 75th percentiles of the US Usual Dietary Intakes to set the optimization constraints. The diet quality was determined using the Healthy Eating Index 2015 (HEI-2015). The modeled vegetarian, pescatarian, and flexitarian food patterns outperformed the omnivore diet on the HEI-2015, with the vegetarian pattern achieving the highest score (82 for females, 78 for males). Modeled flexitarian patterns, with a 25 to 75% reduction in animal protein, offer viable options for those seeking to reduce but not eliminate their animal protein intake while supporting the transition from omnivore to fully plant-based diets. This methodology could be applied to evaluate the nutrient and diet quality of different dietary patterns with various constraints.
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spelling pubmed-102551582023-06-10 Assessing the Quality of Simulated Food Patterns with Reduced Animal Protein Using Meal Data from NHANES 2017–2018 Vasiloglou, Maria F. Elortegui Pascual, Paloma Scuccimarra, Eric A. Plestina, Roko Mainardi, Fabio Mak, Tsz-Ning Ronga, Frédéric Drewnowski, Adam Nutrients Article The nutritional consequences of progressively replacing meat products with plant-based foods need to be systematically evaluated. Modeling analyses provide insights into the predicted food consumption and nutritional adequacy of plant-based diets. We developed a novel methodology to simulate food patterns and evaluate diet quality. Meal data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2017–2018 was used to create 100 7-day meal plans subject to various nutrient and food group optimization criteria. Omnivore (reference diet), flexitarian, pescatarian, and vegetarian food patterns were modeled using mixed integer linear programming. The modeled food patterns used the 25th and 75th percentiles of the US Usual Dietary Intakes to set the optimization constraints. The diet quality was determined using the Healthy Eating Index 2015 (HEI-2015). The modeled vegetarian, pescatarian, and flexitarian food patterns outperformed the omnivore diet on the HEI-2015, with the vegetarian pattern achieving the highest score (82 for females, 78 for males). Modeled flexitarian patterns, with a 25 to 75% reduction in animal protein, offer viable options for those seeking to reduce but not eliminate their animal protein intake while supporting the transition from omnivore to fully plant-based diets. This methodology could be applied to evaluate the nutrient and diet quality of different dietary patterns with various constraints. MDPI 2023-05-31 /pmc/articles/PMC10255158/ /pubmed/37299536 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu15112572 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Ronga, Frédéric
Drewnowski, Adam
Assessing the Quality of Simulated Food Patterns with Reduced Animal Protein Using Meal Data from NHANES 2017–2018
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu15112572
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