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Design and validation of program to detect the gaps between micronutrients intake and their recommended values (804.11)
Author(s) -
Biesalski Hans,
Jati Ignasius,
Widmer Christian,
Gola Ute,
Lambert Christine
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fasebj.28.1_supplement.804.11
Subject(s) - micronutrient , environmental health , nutrient , malnutrition , medicine , food science , biology , ecology , pathology
Micronutrient malnutrition (Hidden Hunger) is a burden for both developing and developed countries. To evaluate micronutrient intake, biochemical data are not very useful and food frequency questionnaires are time consuming and need a trained interviewer. The aim of our approach was to create an innovative, easy to use, and informative web‐based application to calculate the micronutrients intake based on the traditional and locally available diet. The Calculator of Inadequate Micronutrient Intake (CIMI) program is based on food survey data of Indonesian foods (122 foods) from 68800 household and was implemented in HTML5. CIMI was validated using data of children (n=118) and female adults (n=124) and the results were compared to data derived from using Nutrisurvey (NS). The average intake of energy and nutrients calculated using CIMI and NS were similar. Calculation by CIMI and NS with respect to two thirds of RNI as cut‐off showed that there were subjects with inadequate intake of energy and nutrients (Vitamin A, iron, zinc). High percentage of predictive value and a strong correlation between CIMI and NS were observed. CIMI is a simple tool to rapidly calculate the energy, nutrient intakes, and percentage of nutrient fulfillment, thus, can assist in detecting the gap between actual and required micronutrient intake and can be used to suggest changes in dietary patterns to improve nutrition quality.