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Tool Information: Food4Me

Action
Full Nutrient, Food Groups Usual; Retrospective 1 Month Food Frequency Questionnaire No

Summary

This tool is an online FFQ dietary assessment tool and includes 157 food items. This tool uses standardised colour photographs and was designed to assess food and nutritional intake across seven centers in Europe. This tool has been validated twice in 2014.

Contact Information info

Mike.Gibney@ucd.ie

Tool Website

http://www.food4me.org/

Special Considerations

The EPIC-Norfolk FFQ was used as a guide for the food items/groups included. The Food4Me FFQ incorporated 130 food items from the EPIC-Norfolk FFQ plus an additionally 27 food items commonly consumed which were considered nutritionally important across the 7 EU countries involved in the study.

Last Updated info

31/08/2017

Software Required

Computer access

Training Required

Not reported

Instructions on use

Not reported

Administration Method

Self-administered

Data Analysis

Instructions on how the dietary data was analysed can be found in the publications

Author Year Comparator Lifestage Sex Number of Nutrients Validated Mean Difference Variance Measured info Correlation Coefficients Percentage Agreement Limits of Agreement Special Considerations Action
Fallaize 2014 Weighed Food Diary Adults Both 20 N/A
Forster 2014 Food Frequency Questionnaire Adults Both 22 Subjects were Reading, UK and Dublin, Ireland