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Linking USDA Nutrition Databases to IRI Household-Based and Store-Based Scanner Data

  • by Andrea Carlson, Elina T. Page, Thea Palmer Zimmerman, Carina E. Tornow and Sigurd Hermansen
  • 3/13/2019
  • TB-1952

Overview

To measure the overall healthfulness of Americans' food-at-home (FAH) purchases, USDA researchers created a purchase-to-plate “crosswalk”—linking data between USDA data and household and retail scanner data. Substantial improvements in the healthfulness of Americans' FAH purchases would be needed to comply with Federal dietary guidance.

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