A more efficient way for professionals to monitor diet

Dietary Assessment Limited was launched as a University of Leeds spin-out company to develop myfood24, an innovative tool to measure diet and nutrition.

Users of this tool can record their food and drink intake by selecting items and portion sizes from the extensive database. Research showed that the myfood24 online diet monitoring tool is as effective as similar tools already available to health care practitioners, researchers and educators, and more efficient to use.

Proving that myfood24 gives similar levels of detail to long-standing methods of dietary examination opens the prospect of hospitals and GPs adopting it to save time and free up staff to carry out other work.

– Professor Janet Cade

Impact

• Health impact: uses health technology to support healthcare services, creating more efficient ways to support patients with diet and nutrition.

Key information

• Major funders: UKRI Impact Acceleration Account
• Partners and collaborators: University of Copenhagen, University of Bristol, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Slimming World, NHS Central London Comunity Healthcare NHS Trust, Imperial College London, The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Compass Home Care, Brunel University London, The Rotheram NHS Foundation Trust, University of Oxford, York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Danish Cancer Society, CSN Health & Nutrition, Uni La Salle, Hawler Medical University, Goethe University Frankfurt, University of Hamburg, Vall d'Hebron University Hospital
• Disciplines: nutrition, biostatistics
• Investigators: Professor Janet Cade, Dr Darren Greenwood.

This project was sponsored by the UKRI Impact Acceleration Account.

Keywords: food science, nutrition, data analysis, data science, data, research and innovation, faculty of environment, health and wellbeing, health technology, healthtech