Nature Communications (Nov 2022)

Validation of Food Compass with a healthy diet, cardiometabolic health, and mortality among U.S. adults, 1999–2018

  • Meghan O’Hearn,
  • Joshua Erndt-Marino,
  • Suzannah Gerber,
  • Brianna N. Lauren,
  • Christina Economos,
  • John B. Wong,
  • Jeffrey B. Blumberg,
  • Dariush Mozaffarian

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34195-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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The Food Compass is a nutrient profiling system to characterize the healthfulness of diverse foods, beverages and meals. In a nationally representative cohort of 47,999 U.S. adults, the authors validate a person’s individual Food Compass Score against health outcomes.