ReviewAdvances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.)2021
Meal Pattern Analysis in Nutritional Science: Recent Methods and Findings.
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- How diet therapy affects obesity-associated depressive symptoms: from mechanism to therapeutics.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Review
- Development of a prediction model for identifying older adults with low protein using a simple food intake questionnaire.Journal of nutritional science · 2026Article
- Continuous care based on hierarchical nursing for cirrhosis rehabilitation: a retrospective cohort study.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- Predicting diet quality and food consumption at eating occasions using contextual factors: an application of machine learning models.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2025Article
- Protein Intake and Protein Quality Patterns in New Zealand Vegan Diets: An Observational Analysis Using Dynamic Time Warping.Nutrients · 2025Observational
- Comparison of Meal Patterns Across Common Racial Groups in the UK and the USA, Examining Associations with Weight Status and Diet Quality: a Secondary Analysis of NDNS and NHANES Datasets.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2025Article
- A comparison of development methods used to define portion sizes in food-based dietary guidelines around the world.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- Meal Pattern Variables and 15-Year Mortality: Results from the Gothenburg H70 Birth Cohort Studies, Sweden.Food & nutrition research · 2025Article
- The association between dietary diversity and patterns in Chinese university students with abnormal uterine bleeding: a cross-sectional study.Nutrition & metabolism · 2024Article
- Data-driven development and validation of a nutrient-based score to measure nutritional balance of meals in the Philippines.BMC nutrition · 2024Article
- Associations between temporal eating patterns and energy distribution patterns with gallstones: a cross-sectional study based on NHANES 2017-2018.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Aging-related changes in protein and fat intake and their related meal types factors by longitudinal birth cohort analysis using the National Health and Nutrition Survey in Japan from 2001 to 2019.The journal of nutrition, health & aging · 2024Article
- Evaluation of daily eating patterns on overall diet quality using decision tree analyses.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2024Article
- Analytic Methods for Understanding the Temporal Patterning of Dietary and 24-H Movement Behaviors: A Scoping Review.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2024Article
- Analysis of Dietary Patterns Associated with Kidney Stone Disease Based on Data-Driven Approaches: A Case-Control Study in Shanghai.Nutrients · 2024Article
- Sociodemographic patterning of dietary profiles among Inuit youth and adults in Nunavik, Canada: a cross-sectional study.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2024Article
- How many meals and snacks do Brazilians eat a day? Findings from the 2017-2018 Brazilian National Dietary Survey.Cadernos de saude publica · 2024Article
- Associations of food choice values and food literacy with overall diet quality: a nationwide cross-sectional study in Japanese adults.The British journal of nutrition · 2023Article
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Abstract
There is a scarcity of dietary intake research focusing on the intake of whole meals rather than on the nutrients and foods of which those meals are composed. This growing area of research has recently begun to utilize advanced statistical techniques to manage the large number of variables and permutations associated with these complex meal patterns. The aim of this narrative review was to evaluate those techniques and the meal patterns they detect. The 10 observational studies identified used techniques such as principal components analysis, clustering, latent class analysis, and decision trees. They examined meal patterns under 3 categories: temporal patterns (relating to the timing and distribution of meals), content patterns (relating to combinations of foods within a meal and combinations of those meals over a day), and context patterns (relating to external elements of the meal, such as location, activities while eating, and the presence or absence of others). The most common temporal meal patterns were the 3 meals/d pattern, the skipped breakfast pattern, and a grazing pattern consisting of smaller but more frequent meals. The 3 meals/d pattern was associated with increased diet quality compared with the other 2 patterns. Studies identified between 7 and 12 content patterns with limited similarities between studies and no clear associations between the patterns and diet quality or health. One study simultaneously examined temporal and context meal patterns, finding limited associations with diet quality. No study simultaneously examined other combinations of meal patterns. Future research that further develops the statistical techniques required for meal pattern analysis is necessary to clarify the relations between meal patterns and diet quality and health.
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