Conrad Zach, DiStaso Chloe, Korol Madison, Rose Donald
Department of Kinesiology, William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA, United States.
Global Research Institute, William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA, United States.
Curr Dev Nutr. 2024 Jun 6;8(7):103793. doi: 10.1016/j.cdnut.2024.103793. eCollection 2024 Jul.
Research on sustainable diets has become an important and growing area of the nutrition field, but recent studies have pointed to a lack of sustainability metrics and methods that are hindering research and policy progress. To fill this gap, the White House National Strategy on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health calls for increased funding to improve metrics, data collection, and research to address all domains of sustainability, which include nutrition/health, economic, environmental, and social domains. Commodity recipe databases, such as the Food Commodity Intake Database (FCID), are important tools for conducting diet sustainability analyses because they translate mixed dishes from dietary surveys, such as the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), into commodity ingredients. These ingredients have been linked to data on environmental impacts and economic costs from other databases, thus facilitating collaboration between nutrition researchers, environmental scientists, economists, and others. These linkages cannot be made with other components of the national nutrition data system, such as the Food Patterns Equivalents Database (FPED), because the disaggregated food groups from them are not relevant for examining environmental impacts. Although the NHANES is conducted on an ongoing basis, and FPED is continually updated, the FCID has not been officially updated since 2010. This severely limits advancements in sustainability research and related policy analyses. In this commentary, we argue that the federal government should promote this diet sustainability work by integrating a commodity recipe database into the national nutrition data system, and updating it on a regular basis, as it does with other component databases.
可持续饮食研究已成为营养领域一个重要且不断发展的领域，但最近的研究指出，缺乏可持续性指标和方法阻碍了研究和政策的进展。为填补这一空白，白宫《饥饿、营养与健康国家战略》呼吁增加资金，以改进指标、数据收集和研究，以解决可持续性的所有领域问题，包括营养/健康、经济、环境和社会领域。商品食谱数据库，如食品商品摄入数据库（FCID），是进行饮食可持续性分析的重要工具，因为它们将饮食调查（如国家健康与营养检查调查（NHANES））中的混合菜肴转化为商品成分。这些成分已与其他数据库中关于环境影响和经济成本的数据相关联，从而促进了营养研究人员、环境科学家、经济学家和其他人员之间的合作。而国家营养数据系统的其他组成部分，如食物模式等效数据库（FPED），则无法建立这些联系，因为从中分解出的食物组与环境影响研究无关。尽管NHANES是持续进行的，FPED也在不断更新，但FCID自上一次正式更新以来，已时隔多年（2010年）。这严重限制了可持续性研究和相关政策分析的进展。在这篇评论中，我们认为联邦政府应通过将商品食谱数据库纳入国家营养数据系统，并像对待其他组件数据库一样定期更新它，来推动这项饮食可持续性工作。
