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Can common dietary assessment methods be better designed to capture the nutritional contribution of neglected, forest, and wild foods to diets?

Food systems are the primary cause of biodiversity loss globally. Biodiversity and specifically, the role that wild, forest and neglected and underutilised species (NUS) foods might play in diet quality is gaining increased attention. The narrow focus on producing affordable staples for dietary ener...

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Autores principales: Raneri, Jessica E., Boedecker, Julia, Fallas Conejo, Diego A., Muir, Giulia, Hanley-Cook, Giles, Lachat, Carl
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10357295/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37485381
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2023.1186707
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author Raneri, Jessica E.
Boedecker, Julia
Fallas Conejo, Diego A.
Muir, Giulia
Hanley-Cook, Giles
Lachat, Carl
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Boedecker, Julia
Fallas Conejo, Diego A.
Muir, Giulia
Hanley-Cook, Giles
Lachat, Carl
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description Food systems are the primary cause of biodiversity loss globally. Biodiversity and specifically, the role that wild, forest and neglected and underutilised species (NUS) foods might play in diet quality is gaining increased attention. The narrow focus on producing affordable staples for dietary energy has contributed to largely homogenous and unhealthy diets. To date, evidence to quantify the nutritional contribution of these biodiverse foods is limited. A scoping review was conducted to document the methods used to quantify the contribution of wild, forest and NUS foods. We found 37 relevant articles from 22 different countries, mainly from Africa (45%), the Americas (19%), and Asia (10%). There were 114 different classifications used for the foods, 73% of these were specifically related to wild or forest foods. Most dietary assessments were completed using a single day qualitative or quantitative 24 h open recall (n = 23), or a food frequency questionnaire (n = 12). There were 18 different diet related indicators used, mainly nutrient adequacy (n = 9) and dietary diversity scores (n = 9). Often, no specific nutritionally validated diet metric was used. There were 16 studies that presented results (semi) quantitatively to measure the contribution of wild, forest or NUS foods to dietary intakes. Of these, 38% were aggregated together with broader classifications of ‘traditional’ or ‘local’ foods, without definitions provided meaning it was not possible to determine if or to what extend wild, forest of NUS foods were included (or not). In almost all studies there was insufficient detail on the magnitude of the associations between wild, forest or NUS foods and dietary energy or nutrient intakes or the (qualitative) diet recall methodologies that were used inhibited the quantification of the contribution of these foods to diets. A set of six recommendations are put forward to strengthen the evidence on the contribution of wild, NUS, and forest foods to human diets.
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spelling pubmed-103572952023-07-21 Can common dietary assessment methods be better designed to capture the nutritional contribution of neglected, forest, and wild foods to diets? Raneri, Jessica E. Boedecker, Julia Fallas Conejo, Diego A. Muir, Giulia Hanley-Cook, Giles Lachat, Carl Front Nutr Nutrition Food systems are the primary cause of biodiversity loss globally. Biodiversity and specifically, the role that wild, forest and neglected and underutilised species (NUS) foods might play in diet quality is gaining increased attention. The narrow focus on producing affordable staples for dietary energy has contributed to largely homogenous and unhealthy diets. To date, evidence to quantify the nutritional contribution of these biodiverse foods is limited. A scoping review was conducted to document the methods used to quantify the contribution of wild, forest and NUS foods. We found 37 relevant articles from 22 different countries, mainly from Africa (45%), the Americas (19%), and Asia (10%). There were 114 different classifications used for the foods, 73% of these were specifically related to wild or forest foods. Most dietary assessments were completed using a single day qualitative or quantitative 24 h open recall (n = 23), or a food frequency questionnaire (n = 12). There were 18 different diet related indicators used, mainly nutrient adequacy (n = 9) and dietary diversity scores (n = 9). Often, no specific nutritionally validated diet metric was used. There were 16 studies that presented results (semi) quantitatively to measure the contribution of wild, forest or NUS foods to dietary intakes. Of these, 38% were aggregated together with broader classifications of ‘traditional’ or ‘local’ foods, without definitions provided meaning it was not possible to determine if or to what extend wild, forest of NUS foods were included (or not). In almost all studies there was insufficient detail on the magnitude of the associations between wild, forest or NUS foods and dietary energy or nutrient intakes or the (qualitative) diet recall methodologies that were used inhibited the quantification of the contribution of these foods to diets. A set of six recommendations are put forward to strengthen the evidence on the contribution of wild, NUS, and forest foods to human diets. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-07-06 /pmc/articles/PMC10357295/ /pubmed/37485381 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2023.1186707 Text en Copyright © 2023 Raneri, Boedecker, Fallas Conejo, Muir, Hanley-Cook and Lachat. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Fallas Conejo, Diego A.
Muir, Giulia
Hanley-Cook, Giles
Lachat, Carl
Can common dietary assessment methods be better designed to capture the nutritional contribution of neglected, forest, and wild foods to diets?
title Can common dietary assessment methods be better designed to capture the nutritional contribution of neglected, forest, and wild foods to diets?
title_full Can common dietary assessment methods be better designed to capture the nutritional contribution of neglected, forest, and wild foods to diets?
title_fullStr Can common dietary assessment methods be better designed to capture the nutritional contribution of neglected, forest, and wild foods to diets?
title_full_unstemmed Can common dietary assessment methods be better designed to capture the nutritional contribution of neglected, forest, and wild foods to diets?
title_short Can common dietary assessment methods be better designed to capture the nutritional contribution of neglected, forest, and wild foods to diets?
title_sort can common dietary assessment methods be better designed to capture the nutritional contribution of neglected, forest, and wild foods to diets?
topic Nutrition
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10357295/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37485381
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2023.1186707
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