Please join Emily Hill MS, RDN at the 2024 Indiana Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics Annual Meeting. In this presentation, attendees will learn about the pros and cons of existing dietary assessment methods. The concept of nutritional metabolomics will be introduced, and the potential of foodomics (the metabolomics of foods) will be highlighted through discussion of findings from several human clinical studies. Specifically, the presenter will describe how the measurement of the compounds in our foods may be a useful approach for identifying new biomarkers of dietary exposure to foods, food groups, and overall dietary patterns such as a DASH or Mediterranean diet. Data will be presented to demonstrate how foodomics can be used to explore: (1) how foods group together based on chemical composition, (2) compounds that are associated with consumption of specific foods, and (3) components within our foods that may be related to changes in cardiometabolic health. Future directions will include potential applications to precision nutrition approaches and clinical dietetics practice.
Learning objectives:
After this session, attendees will be able to:
- List strengths and limitations of current dietary assessment methods
- Describe the application of metabolomics to nutrition studies for identification of biomarkers of exposure
- Explain how new approaches to measuring foods can be used for precision nutrition and applied to dietetics practice
