CREA Council for Agricultural Research and Economics-Research Centre for Food and Nutrition, Via Ardeatina 546, 00178 Rome, Italy.
Independent Expert (Formerly Council for Agricultural Research and Economics), 00178 Rome, Italy.
Nutrients. 2021 Aug 31;13(9):3073. doi: 10.3390/nu13093073.
National food consumption surveys are crucial for monitoring the nutritional status of individuals, defining nutrition policies, estimating dietary exposure, and assessing the environmental impact of the diet. The methods for conducting them are time and resource-consuming, so they are usually carried out after extended periods of time, which does not allow for timely monitoring of any changes in the population's dietary patterns. This study aims to compare the results of nutrition-related mobile apps that are most popular in Italy, with data obtained with the dietary software Foodsoft 1.0, which was recently used in the Italian national dietary survey IV SCAI. The apps considered in this study were selected according to criteria, such as popularity (downloads > 10,000); Italian language; input characteristics (daily dietary recording ability); output features (calculation of energy and macronutrients associated with consumption), etc. 415 apps in Google Play and 226 in the iTunes Store were examined, then the following five apps were selected: YAZIO, Lifesum, Oreegano, Macro and Fitatu. Twenty 24-hour recalls were extracted from the IV SCAI database and inputted into the apps. Energy and macronutrient intake data were compared with Foodsoft 1.0 output. Good agreement was found between the selected apps and Foodsoft 1.0 (high correlation index), and no significant differences were found in the mean values of energy and macronutrients, except for fat intakes. In conclusion, the selected apps could be a suitable tool for assessing dietary intake.
全国性食物消费调查对于监测个体的营养状况、制定营养政策、估计饮食暴露情况以及评估饮食对环境的影响至关重要。开展这些调查的方法既费时又费资源，因此通常在较长时间后进行，这使得无法及时监测人口饮食模式的任何变化。本研究旨在比较在意大利最受欢迎的与营养相关的移动应用程序的结果，以及最近在意大利全国饮食调查 IV SCAI 中使用的饮食软件 Foodsoft 1.0 获得的数据。本研究中考虑的应用程序是根据以下标准选择的，例如流行度（下载量>10,000）；意大利语；输入特征（每日饮食记录能力）；输出特征（与消费相关的能量和宏量营养素的计算）等。在 Google Play 中检查了 415 个应用程序，在 iTunes Store 中检查了 226 个应用程序，然后选择了以下五个应用程序：YAZIO、Lifesum、Oreegano、Macro 和 Fitatu。从 IV SCAI 数据库中提取了 20 个 24 小时回忆，并将其输入到应用程序中。将能量和宏量营养素摄入量数据与 Foodsoft 1.0 的输出进行比较。所选应用程序与 Foodsoft 1.0 之间存在良好的一致性（高相关指数），并且除了脂肪摄入量外，能量和宏量营养素的平均值没有发现显著差异。总之，所选的应用程序可以作为评估饮食摄入的合适工具。
