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There were no significant differences between the methods for percent of energy from protein, carbohydrate, and fat (P=.27-.89).
COCO Nutritionist provides comparable macronutrient distribution data to traditional methods.
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There were also no significant differences between the methods for percent of energy from protein, carbohydrate, and fat (P=.27-.89).
Why this rating
Based on the comparison of two established dietary assessment methods.
Source
Use of Natural Spoken Language With Automated Mapping of Self-reported Food Intake to Food Composition Data for Low-Burden Real-time Dietary Assessment: Method Comparison Study (Preprint)
Salima Taylor et al. · 2021
DOI 10.2196/preprints.26988
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