Measuring the intake of dietary bioactives: pitfalls and how to avoid them

Ottaviani, J. I., Schroeter, H. and Kuhnle, G. G. C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8081-8931 (2023) Measuring the intake of dietary bioactives: pitfalls and how to avoid them. Molecular Aspects of Medicine, 89. 101139. ISSN 0098-2997 doi: 10.1016/j.mam.2022.101139

Abstract/Summary

Bioactives are food constituents that, while not essential to human life, can affect health. Thus, there is increased interest in developing dietary recommendations for bioactives. Such recommendations require detailed information about the long-term association between habitual intake and health at population scale, and these can only be provided by large-scale observational studies. Nutritional epidemiology relies on the accurate estimation of intake, but currently used methods, commonly based on a 2-step process involving self-reports and food composition tables, are fraught with significant challenges and are unable to estimate the systemic presence of bioactives. Intake assessments based on nutritional biomarkers can provide an advanced alternative, but there are a number of pitfalls that need to be addressed in order to obtain reliable data on intake. Using flavan-3-ols as a case study, we highlight here key challenges and how they may be avoided. Taken together, we believe that the approaches outlined in this review can be applied to a wide range of food constituents, and doing so will improve assessments of the dietary intake of bioactives.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/106926
Identification Number/DOI	10.1016/j.mam.2022.101139
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Life Sciences > School of Chemistry, Food and Pharmacy > Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences > Human Nutrition Research Group Life Sciences > School of Chemistry, Food and Pharmacy > Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences > Food Research Group
Publisher	Elsevier
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