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Dietary diversity is linked to nutrients because it is a metric used to ensure an adequate intake of essential nutrients {fact:2, fact:3}, and it is necessary because no single food source can provide all the nutrients required for health {fact:1, fact:5}. Furthermore, the balance of nutrients and diversity is a critical factor in determining the overall quality and health impact of a diet [1].
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A Consensus Proposal for Nutritional Indicators to Assess ... - Frontiers frontiersin.org 2 facts
claimLarger portion sizes in terms of energy, nutrient, and diversity in times of food abundance lead to unhealthy diets, diabesity, and diet-associated morbidity and mortality.
claimDietary diversity may guarantee a healthy diet by ensuring an adequate presence of nutrients and bioactive molecules.
Dietary Diversity Indicators: Cultural Preferences and Health ... frontiersin.org 1 fact
claimDietary diversity is recognized as an essential component of a quality diet because no single food can provide all the nutrients required to maintain good health.
Ethnobotanical study of wild edible plants in Goba District Southwest ... nature.com 1 fact
claimWild edible plants are vital resources for increasing dietary diversity and providing essential nutrients in local diets.
Defining diet quality: a synthesis of dietary quality metrics and their ... pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 1 fact
claimThe authors of the study 'Defining diet quality: a synthesis of dietary quality metrics and their...' define a dietary metric as a metric derived from nutrients, food, or food groups, or a combination thereof, with the objective of measuring dietary diversity.