Associations of food choice values and food literacy with overall diet quality: a nationwide cross-sectional study in Japanese adults

Kentaro Murakami, Nana Shinozaki, M Barbara E Livingstone, Xiaoyi Yuan, Ryoko Tajima, Mai Matsumoto, Shizuko Masayasu, Satoshi Sasaki

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    Abstract

    To date, a limited number of studies have examined aspects of food choice values and food literacy in relation to some aspects of dietary behaviours. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to comprehensively examine the associations of food choice values and food literacy with diet quality. In total, 2231 Japanese adults aged 19-80 years completed questionnaires asking about food choice values (accessibility, convenience, health/weight control, tradition, sensory appeal, organic, comfort and safety) and food literacy characterised by nutrition knowledge, cooking skills, food skills and eating behaviours (hunger, food responsiveness, emotional overeating, enjoyment of food, satiety responsiveness, emotional undereating, food fussiness and slowness in eating). As a measure of diet quality, the Healthy Eating Index-2015 (HEI-2015) was calculated using a brief-type diet history questionnaire (BDHQ) or a food combination questionnaire (FCQ). In males, after adjustment for potential confounding factors (including age, BMI and the ratio of reported energy intake to estimated energy requirement), the HEI-2015 derived from BDHQ and that derived from FCQ were associated significantly (P ≤ 0·02) and positively with the food choice values of organic and inversely with food fussiness. In females, the HEI-2015 showed positive associations with the food choice values of health/weight control, nutrition knowledge and cooking skills and an inverse association with food fussiness, irrespective of the dietary assessment questionnaire (P ≤ 0·03). In conclusion, this study suggests that several aspects of food choice values and food literacy were associated with diet quality, and the aspects related differed between males and females.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)1795-1805
    Number of pages11
    JournalBritish Journal of Nutrition
    Volume130
    Issue number10
    Early online date5 Apr 2023
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished online - 5 Apr 2023

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    © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Nutrition Society.

    Keywords

    • diet quality
    • values
    • gender
    • skill
    • sex
    • knowledge
    • Food literacy
    • epidemiology

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