The practical feasibility of assessing food purchases
- 12.02.2025
- English Articles
- Sabrina Antor
- Katja Lotz
Peer reviewed / Manuscript (original) submitted: 12 June 2024; revision accepted: 21 August 2024
A comparison between the quantitative assessment using the DGE Ernährungskreis and the qualitative assessment using the FSA-NPS DI1
Introduction
Increasingly, shopping receipts, which are automatically stored in the corresponding apps of food retailers, are being used as digital markers for individual food selection behavior [1] and for evaluating food choices [2]. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the limits, possibilities and potential for optimization in the practical feasibility of nutritional assessment of food purchases using digital receipts from the German Nutrition Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ernährung, DGE) Nutrition Circle (DGE Ernährungskreis) [3] and the Food Standard Agency National Profiling System Dietary Index (FSA-NPS DI) [4].
These indices were chosen because the DGE Ernährungskreis is an instrument that is familiar to the German population to some extent and can be depicted graphically. The FSA-NPS DI was chosen because the study by Wu et al. [2] showed that it is a suitable indicator for drawing conclusions about food intake using shopping data. After evaluating the receipts, it makes sense to display the results graphically on the smartphone (in an app) in a user-friendly way and thus show the users their previous individual shopping behavior. ...
