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Combining biomarker panels and dietary intake data for
improved assessment of healthful/unhealthful plant food intake

(PlantIntake)

PlantIntake
is a collaborative project that is funded within the
JPI HDHL ERA-Net HDHL-INTIMIC.

What is it all about?

Diets predominantly consisting of plant-based foods are associated with lower risk for non-communicable diseases. However, emerging data indicate that unhealthful plant-based diets are related with raised disease risk.
Accurate information on food intake is necessary to investigate diet-health associations. However, traditional assessment methods based on self-reported data are prone to measurement error and bias, and specifically for plant-based foods.

The main objective

Therefore, the main objective of PlantIntake is to improve the dietary assessment of plant-based foods by establishing multi-biomarker panels and by combining self-reported intake data with biomarker data from blood and urine.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the ERA-NET Cofund action N° 727565.