Dietary species richness as a measure of food biodiversity and nutritional quality of diets

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 127-132

  Lachat, Carl ^a   Raneri, Jessica E ^a,b   Smith, Katherine Walker ^a   Kolsteren, Patrick ^a   Van Damme, Patrick ^a,c   Verzelen, Kaat ^a   Penafiel, Daniela ^a,d   Vanhove, Wouter ^a   Kennedy, Gina ^b   Hunter, Danny ^b   Odhiambo, Francis Oduor ^b   Ntandou Bouzitou, Gervais ^b   De Baets, Bernard ^a   Ratnasekera, Disna ^e   Ky, Hoang The ^f   Remans, Roseline ^a,b   Termote, Céline ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b BIOVERSITY INTERNATIONAL   (Italy)

^c CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^d ESCUELA SUPERIOR POLITÉCNICA DEL LITORAL   (Ecuador)

^e UNIVERSITY OF RUHUNA   (Sri Lanka)

^f Health Bridge Foundation of Canada in Vietnam   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Diet quality; Food biodiversity; Malnutrition; Sustainable diets

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; CALCIUM; FOLIC ACID; IRON; RETINOL; TRACE ELEMENT; ZINC;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CALORIC INTAKE; CHILD; DIET; DIETARY INTAKE; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; INFANT; LOW INCOME COUNTRY; MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRY; NUTRIENT CONTENT; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SEASON; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; EATING; FOOD PREFERENCE; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RURAL POPULATION;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EATING; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MICRONUTRIENTS; NUTRITIVE VALUE; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 85040161920     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1709194115     Document Type: Article

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