Diet Quality Scores of Australian Adults Who Have Completed the Healthy Eating Quiz
- Resource Type
- article
- Authors
- Rebecca L. Williams; Megan E. Rollo; Tracy Schumacher; Clare E. Collins
- Source
- Nutrients, Vol 9, Iss 8, p 880 (2017)
- Subject
- diet variety
healthy eating quiz
Australian dietary intake
adults
Nutrition. Foods and food supply
TX341-641
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2072-6643
Higher scores obtained using diet quality and variety indices are indicators of more optimal food and nutrient intakes and lower chronic disease risk. The aim of this paper is to describe the overall diet quality and variety in a sample of Australian adults who completed an online diet quality self-assessment tool, the Healthy Eating Quiz. The Healthy Eating Quiz takes approximately five minutes to complete online and computes user responses into a total diet quality score (out of a maximum of 73 points) and then categorizes them into the following groups: ‘needs work’ (