Monitoring progress towards achieving the Scottish Dietary Goals by looking at dietary intakes
The Scottish Dietary Goals describe the dietary changes needed to improve and support the health of people in Scotland. Food Standards Scotland monitors progress towards achieving these goals by assessing dietary intakes across the population.
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To understand the impact of achieving recommendations for meat and dairy reduction made by the Climate Change Committee, Food Standards Scotland commissioned research from the University of Edinburgh. The first phase of research uses data on dietary intakes collected in adults, as part of the Scottish Health Survey (SHeS) in 2021. The second phase used data from our Dietary Intake in Scotland’s Children (DISH) Survey.
Intake24 is an online 24-hour dietary recall tool developed by Newcastle University and commissioned by Food Standards Scotland. Intake24 is designed to collect detailed dietary intake data, and was included within the 2021 Scottish Health Survey. In this survey, over 3000 adults aged 16 years and over completed at least 2 days of recall.
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Dietary Intake in Scotland’s CHildren (DISH) used Intake24 to gather data about what young people aged 2-15 years eat and drink.
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Secondary analysis of the Living Costs and Food Survey was the primary method of monitoring against the Scottish Dietary Goals from 2001, with data available up to 2018. This worked aimed to monitor annual trends in food consumption and nutrient intakes using a robust methodology developed to convert purchase data into estimated consumption.
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The NDNS rolling programme is a continuous, cross-sectional survey designed to collect detailed information on the food consumption, nutrient intake and nutritional status of the general population aged 1.5 years and over living in private households in the UK. Data from the Scottish boost enabled a direct comparison of intakes in Scotland with the rest of the UK.
Kantar is a market research company that collects longitudinal data on food and drink purchases brought into the home from a large consumer panel of around 30,000 households across Great Britain . A subset of the main purchasing panel, called the usage panel, also record the food and drink they eat at home or carry out.
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As part of the NDNS rolling programme, adults aged 19 to 64 years in Scotland took part in surveys in 2014 and 2016 to provide a 24-hour urine collection to measure salt intakes. The survey in Scotland ran concurrently with the survey in England.
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There is limited data available on the vitamin D status of population groups in Scotland. The Scottish Health survey rolling programme has previously been used to obtain blood samples for vitamin D analyses and provide a marker of vitamin D status in adults.
