Abstract
Animal-source foods (ASF) provide nutrition for children and adolescents’ physical and cognitive development. Here, we use data from the Global Dietary Database and Bayesian hierarchical models to quantify global, regional and national ASF intakes between 1990 and 2018 by age group across 185 countries, representing 93% of the world’s child population. Mean ASF intake was 1.9 servings per day, representing 16% of children consuming at least three daily servings. Intake was similar between boys and girls, but higher among urban children with educated parents. Consumption varied by age from 0.6 at <1 year to 2.5 servings per day at 15–19 years. Between 1990 and 2018, mean ASF intake increased by 0.5 servings per week, with increases in all regions except sub-Saharan Africa. In 2018, total ASF consumption was highest in Russia, Brazil, Mexico and Turkey, and lowest in Uganda, India, Kenya and Bangladesh. These findings can inform policy to address malnutrition through targeted ASF consumption programmes.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 305-319 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Journal | Nature Food |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| Early online date | 20 Apr 2023 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Apr 2023 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:We thank the Global Dietary Database Consortium for sharing and harmonizing their dietary surveys in accordance with the Global Dietary Database methods. This study was supported by grants from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (OPP1176681; PI D.M.) and from the American Heart Association (20POST35200069; PI V.M.). The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation contributed to study design during the grant application process; the funders otherwise had no role in data collection and analysis, decision to publish or preparation of the manuscript.
Funding Information:
V.M. reports a research grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, outside the submitted work. P.W. reports research grants and contracts from the United States Agency for International Development and personal fees from the Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition, outside the submitted work. J.Z., J.R. and P.S. report research funding from Nestle, outside the submitted work. J.C. reports research funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the United States Agency for International Development, outside the submitted work. R.M. reports grants from National Institute of Health, Nestle, and Danone, personal fees from Bunge, Development Initiatives, outside the submitted work. D.M. reports research funding from the National Institutes of Health and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; personal fees from GOED, Bunge, Indigo Agriculture, Motif FoodWorks, Amarin, Acasti Pharma, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, America’s Test Kitchen, and Danone; scientific advisory board member for Brightseed, DayTwo, Elysium Health, Filtricine, HumanCo, and Tiny Organics; and chapter royalties from UpToDate, all outside the submitted work. The other authors declare no competing interests.
Data Availability Statement
The modelled estimates are available for download from the Global Dietary Database (https://www.globaldietarydatabase.org/). Survey-level information and original data download weblinks are also provided for all public surveys; and survey-level microdata or stratum-level aggregate data are provided for direct download for all non-public surveys granted consent for public sharing by the data owner. Data on national food and nutrient supplies are available for download from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data) and the Global Expanded Nutrient Supply (GENuS) model dataset (https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/GENuS). Data on population demographics are available for download from the United Nations Population Division (https://population.un.org/wpp/DataQuery/).Keywords
- Epidemiology
- Risk factors
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