Nutrition Assessment - Adult

Importance of Topic to Practice/Topic Overview
Dietary assessment involves the collection and analysis of past or current information on food and beverages consumed over a specified period of time that is usually self-reported and then coded and processed to compute intake of energy, nutrient or food groups or other dietary constituents using food composition tables (1,2). This data can then be used to analyze dietary patterns, the quantity or quality of food intake (3). Typical methods include