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Sustainability analysis of Finnish pre-schoolers’ diet based on targets of the EAT-Lancet reference diet

PURPOSE: The EAT-Lancet reference diet is a healthy plant-based diet produced within planetary boundaries. To inform the food system transformation, we compared Finnish pre-schoolers’ food consumption with the reference diet’s food group targets. METHODS: Food record data for 3- to 6-year-old pre-sc...

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Autores principales: Bäck, Sari, Skaffari, Essi, Vepsäläinen, Henna, Lehto, Reetta, Lehto, Elviira, Nissinen, Kaija, Ray, Carola, Nevalainen, Jaakko, Roos, Eva, Erkkola, Maijaliisa, Korkalo, Liisa
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Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8854143/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34524506
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00394-021-02672-3
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author Bäck, Sari
Skaffari, Essi
Vepsäläinen, Henna
Lehto, Reetta
Lehto, Elviira
Nissinen, Kaija
Ray, Carola
Nevalainen, Jaakko
Roos, Eva
Erkkola, Maijaliisa
Korkalo, Liisa
author_facet Bäck, Sari
Skaffari, Essi
Vepsäläinen, Henna
Lehto, Reetta
Lehto, Elviira
Nissinen, Kaija
Ray, Carola
Nevalainen, Jaakko
Roos, Eva
Erkkola, Maijaliisa
Korkalo, Liisa
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description PURPOSE: The EAT-Lancet reference diet is a healthy plant-based diet produced within planetary boundaries. To inform the food system transformation, we compared Finnish pre-schoolers’ food consumption with the reference diet’s food group targets. METHODS: Food record data for 3- to 6-year-old pre-schoolers were collected in the cross-sectional DAGIS survey. Ingredients of composite dishes were available in the data. In addition, we manually decomposed industrial products such as sausages and biscuits by estimating the shares of ingredients. We also estimated the consumption of added sugars and converted the consumption of dairy products into milk equivalents. We used usual intake modelling to estimate the mean consumption and the proportion of children who met the reference diet’s targets. We set the target amounts separately for 3- to 4-year-olds and 5- to 6-year-olds in grams by proportioning the published target amounts (assuming a 2500 kcal diet) to the children’s mean reported energy intake. RESULTS: For both age groups (3- to 4-year-olds, n = 460; 5- to 6-year-olds, n = 402), the daily mean consumption of whole grains, vegetables, legumes, nuts, and unsaturated oils was below targets, whereas the consumption of red meat, dairy foods, tubers, and added sugars was above targets. The consumption of fruit and fish was in line with targets. CONCLUSION: To comply with the reference diet’s targets, major changes in the diets of Finnish children are needed. The key food groups targeted for higher consumption are whole grains and legumes and targeted for lower consumption red meat and dairy products. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s00394-021-02672-3.
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spelling pubmed-88541432022-02-23 Sustainability analysis of Finnish pre-schoolers’ diet based on targets of the EAT-Lancet reference diet Bäck, Sari Skaffari, Essi Vepsäläinen, Henna Lehto, Reetta Lehto, Elviira Nissinen, Kaija Ray, Carola Nevalainen, Jaakko Roos, Eva Erkkola, Maijaliisa Korkalo, Liisa Eur J Nutr Original Contribution PURPOSE: The EAT-Lancet reference diet is a healthy plant-based diet produced within planetary boundaries. To inform the food system transformation, we compared Finnish pre-schoolers’ food consumption with the reference diet’s food group targets. METHODS: Food record data for 3- to 6-year-old pre-schoolers were collected in the cross-sectional DAGIS survey. Ingredients of composite dishes were available in the data. In addition, we manually decomposed industrial products such as sausages and biscuits by estimating the shares of ingredients. We also estimated the consumption of added sugars and converted the consumption of dairy products into milk equivalents. We used usual intake modelling to estimate the mean consumption and the proportion of children who met the reference diet’s targets. We set the target amounts separately for 3- to 4-year-olds and 5- to 6-year-olds in grams by proportioning the published target amounts (assuming a 2500 kcal diet) to the children’s mean reported energy intake. RESULTS: For both age groups (3- to 4-year-olds, n = 460; 5- to 6-year-olds, n = 402), the daily mean consumption of whole grains, vegetables, legumes, nuts, and unsaturated oils was below targets, whereas the consumption of red meat, dairy foods, tubers, and added sugars was above targets. The consumption of fruit and fish was in line with targets. CONCLUSION: To comply with the reference diet’s targets, major changes in the diets of Finnish children are needed. The key food groups targeted for higher consumption are whole grains and legumes and targeted for lower consumption red meat and dairy products. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s00394-021-02672-3. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2021-09-15 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC8854143/ /pubmed/34524506 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00394-021-02672-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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Bäck, Sari
Skaffari, Essi
Vepsäläinen, Henna
Lehto, Reetta
Lehto, Elviira
Nissinen, Kaija
Ray, Carola
Nevalainen, Jaakko
Roos, Eva
Erkkola, Maijaliisa
Korkalo, Liisa
Sustainability analysis of Finnish pre-schoolers’ diet based on targets of the EAT-Lancet reference diet
title Sustainability analysis of Finnish pre-schoolers’ diet based on targets of the EAT-Lancet reference diet
title_full Sustainability analysis of Finnish pre-schoolers’ diet based on targets of the EAT-Lancet reference diet
title_fullStr Sustainability analysis of Finnish pre-schoolers’ diet based on targets of the EAT-Lancet reference diet
title_full_unstemmed Sustainability analysis of Finnish pre-schoolers’ diet based on targets of the EAT-Lancet reference diet
title_short Sustainability analysis of Finnish pre-schoolers’ diet based on targets of the EAT-Lancet reference diet
title_sort sustainability analysis of finnish pre-schoolers’ diet based on targets of the eat-lancet reference diet
topic Original Contribution
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8854143/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34524506
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00394-021-02672-3
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