title: Nutrient-rich foods: applying nutrient navigation systems to improve public health.
abstract: The American diet is high in calories, but low in nutrients. To help consumers obtain more nutrition from the calories they consume, research is underway to develop a nutrient profiling approach that can be used to evaluate individual foods and help people build healthful diets. A nutrient profiling system that rates individual foods based on their nutrient content needs to be both science-driven and user-friendly, allowing consumers to make more healthful food choices within and across all the food groups. A recent survey, commissioned by the Nutrient Rich Food Coalition, reveals that the majority of consumers and nutrition professionals believe that better information about a food's total combined nutrient content would be effective and useful in helping them make more nutrient-rich food choices.
authors.affiliation: University of Washington Center for Obesity Research, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. adamdrew@u.washington.edu
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Drewnowski
authors.forename: V L
authors.initials: VL
authors.lastname: Fulgoni
authors.forename: M K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Young
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pitman
mesh_terms: D001628:Beverages / Q000592:standards; D003657:Decision Making; D004032:Diet / Q000592:standards*; D005502:Food / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D009753:Nutritive Value; D009765:Obesity / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D050177:Overweight / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D011634:Public Health / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology