University of Hawaii School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA.
Public Health Nutr. 2013 Jan;16(1):2-7. doi: 10.1017/S1368980012000985. Epub 2012 Apr 4.
Accurate determination of fruit and vegetable consumption is essential for research that seeks to determine current fruit and vegetable intake patterns, what type and amount of fruit and vegetable consumption is optimal for human health and for evaluating interventions developed to increase such consumption. However, there are many issues that make accurate determination of fruit and vegetable consumption quite difficult. There are many methods used to measure fruit and vegetable intake, but all have limitations. Also, what foods individuals consider to be or to not be fruits or vegetables appear to be quite variable, with such variability often associated with the individual's racial/ethnic background. Researchers and governmental agencies vary with respect to what foods they include and do not include when calculating fruit and vegetable intake. These differences make it difficult to conduct, evaluate and compare studies in this area. The current paper reviews some of the major issues with measuring and determining fruit and vegetable intake.
准确确定水果和蔬菜的摄入量对于研究当前的水果和蔬菜摄入量模式、确定最佳的水果和蔬菜摄入量类型和数量以促进人类健康以及评估旨在增加此类摄入量的干预措施至关重要。然而，有许多问题使得准确确定水果和蔬菜的摄入量变得相当困难。有许多方法可用于测量水果和蔬菜的摄入量，但所有方法都有其局限性。此外，个人认为哪些食物是水果或蔬菜似乎变化很大，这种变化通常与个人的种族/民族背景有关。研究人员和政府机构在计算水果和蔬菜摄入量时，所包含和不包含的食物也有所不同。这些差异使得在该领域进行、评估和比较研究变得困难。本文综述了衡量和确定水果和蔬菜摄入量的一些主要问题。
