The food safety food grouping contains 19 food groups and 125 subgroups and is used in the Food Safety section of the platform which calculates statistics that can support dietary exposure risk assessments.

Dietary diversity is a qualitative measure of food consumption that reflects household access to a variety of foods, and is also a proxy for nutrient adequacy of the diet of individuals. The dietary diversity questionnaire represents a rapid, user-friendly and easily administered low-cost assessment tool.

MDD-W is a food group diversity indicator developed by FAO and its partners that reflects one key dimension of diet quality: dietary diversity (FAO, 2021). It is used as a proxy for micronutrient adequacy. MDD-W is a simple dichotomous indicator of whether women 15 to 49 years of age have consumed at

Currently, FAO/WHO GIFT provides ready-to-use indicators based on individual food consumption data in the areas of food consumption, food safety and nutrition. These indicators can be browsed by food group, subgroup and food item.

The FAO/WHO Global Individual Food consumption data Tool (FAO/WHO GIFT) is a novel open-access online platform, hosted by FAO and supported by WHO, providing access to harmonised individual quantitative food consumption (IQFC) data, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC).

FAO FOOD COMMODITY LISTING. The FAO provided draft descriptions of main food commodity groups in 1994: Cereals and cereal products; Roots and tibers and derived products; Sugar crops and Sweetened Derived Products; Pulses and Derived Products; Nuts and Derived Products; Oil-bearing Crops and Derived Products; Vegetables and Derived Products

Dietary diversity scores are created by summing either the number of individual foods or food groups consumed over a reference period. The dietary diversity scores described in these guidelines consist of a simple count of food groups that a household or an individual has consumed over the past 24 hours.

How should foods be classified into food groups? The ten food groups “counted” in the Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women of Reproductive Age indicator are: Many foods are easily classified into the correct group, but other foods present classification challenges.

Food shall conform to the microbiological requirements established in this Regulation. The maximum authorised levels of micro-organisms are presented in the Annex to this Regulation by food group.

The food safety food grouping contains 19 food groups and 125 subgroups and is used in the Food Safety section of the platform which calculates statistics that can support dietary exposure risk assessments.