The Malaysian Food Barometer Open Database: An Invitation to Study the Modernization of Malaysian Food Patterns and Its Economic and Health Consequences

Poulain, Jean-Pierre; Tibère, Laurence; Mognard, Élise; Laporte, Cyrille; Fournier, Tristan; Noor, Mohd Ismail; Dasgupta, Anindita; Alem, Yasmine; Naidoo, Kremlasen; Dupuy, Anne; Rochedy, Amandine; Nair, Pradeep; Ragavan, Neethianhantan Ari

doi:10.3389/fnut.2021.800317

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“…Such an eater-oriented approach is useful not only for building comprehensive interdisciplinary health interventions, but also for rendering nutritional knowledge accessible for non-scientific audiences, thus contributing to the increase of consumers' nutritional knowledge. Our argument resonates with Poulain et al 's (35) observation that nutritional surveys and studies take an eating individual separately from their context, while the latter provides sociological and ethnological insights into the food habits. Leaving aside the social dimension of food consumption, however, can result in ineffective, and sometimes even contra-effective food policies and regulations.…”

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“…In this frame of reference, a collection of articles on the topic of databases and nutrition was published in Frontiers in March 2022 under the direction of Durazzo and Lucarini. This collection has presented new types of databases, dealing not only with nutritional components (for example, systematizing the types of low-or no-calorie sweeteners in products and beverages (34)), but also those linking nutritional and social characteristics to understand contemporary food scapes (for example, a database studying modernization of Malaysian food patterns (35)).…”

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Eater-oriented knowledge framework for reducing salt and dietary sodium intake (scoping review)

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Salt and dietary sodium are ubiquitously present in daily food practices and, at the same time, reducing salt intake presents an important public health issue. Given such an ambivalent position of salt in human diet, we argue that public health guidelines toward dietary sodium reduction require an eater-oriented knowledge framework. In this article we are making the first steps toward a flexible interdisciplinary database which would include nutritional, socio-economic, cultural, material, and socio-psychological determinants of salt consumption for comprehensive public health campaigns. We employ an explorative scoping review of academic articles and reports, limiting our review to the original data on salt or sodium consumption published in English or French between 2000 and 2022. We describe salt consumption as research object, identifying its representation in different research fields, data sources, methodologies, samples, and links with nutritional recommendations. We synthesize existing approaches via four eater-oriented categories: Socio-demographic and cultural descriptors of salt consumers; Knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs on nutritional norms; Salt practices associated with dietary or medical regimes; Salt materialities: interactions and contexts. In each category, we identify the dominant relational features, i.e., what kind of ‘eater-salt’ relation is being put forward. We thus build an interdisciplinary documentary base of dietary sodium consumption factors. We discuss the results, suggesting that comprehensive nutritional policies for global salt reduction require interdisciplinary eater-oriented data frameworks.

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“…When existing, studies are mainly framed by the nutritional perspective [for example ( 42 – 46 )] which, while being a matter of controversies in the West ( 47 – 49 ), is further applied without much consideration paid to the particularities of the Asian contexts and histories. Thus, it has been undertaken by the Asian Food Barometer initiative ( 6 , 10 , 50 ). “Eating Out” database contributes with a focus on the movements of food intake between home and out of home in relation to compressed modernization and provides an empirical basis to the debate of the social and public health implications of eating out in the Asian contexts.…”

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“…It is conducted within the framework of the chair of “Food Studies: Food, Cultures, and Health” created jointly by Taylor's University (Malaysia) and the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès (France), in partnership with SEAMEO RECFON (Indonesia) and Ritsumeikan University (Japan), and lead by Jean-Pierre Poulain. This survey is a part of the wider Asian Food Barometer initiative and supplementary to the national Food Barometers, currently, the Malaysian ( 10 ) and the Indonesian databases. While the national surveys are including data on the food content and quantities, thus enabling analysis of the nutrient composition ( 11 ), “Eating Out” is focusing on the food day patterns.…”

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“Eating Out”, spatiality, temporality and sociality. A database for China, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and France

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“…The protocol was approved by the Human Ethics Committee of Taylor's University (reference HEC2017/030). Detailed information on this study design, protocol and methodology has been previously published (15,20).…”

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Breakfast Practices in Malaysia, Nutrient Intake and Diet Quality: A Study Based on the Malaysian Food Barometer

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Background Breakfast is often referred to as the “most important meal of the day” in shaping diet quality. This study evaluated the percentage contribution of breakfast to the energy and nutrient intakes of Malaysian adults. Objective To establish patterns of breakfast consumption in Malaysia and assess its contribution to the overall quality of the diet. Methods This study used the 24-hour recall data from the nationally representative and cross-sectional Malaysian Food Barometer (second data collection, 2018) to assess breakfast intake among Malaysians aged 18 years and above (n = 1604). Diet quality was measured using the Nutrient Rich Food index (NRF) 9.3. The nutritional profile of breakfast was compared across tertiles of NRF9.3. Results According to the breakfast definition set by the authors, overall, 89% of Malaysians consume breakfast. Breakfast was found to provide on average 473 kcal and ~ 26% of the daily energy. Within the Malaysian daily diet rich in fat, saturated fat and total sugar, breakfast appeared to be particularly high in sugar, sodium and saturated fat. Conversely, intakes of fiber, potassium, calcium, vitamins C, D, folate, iron, zinc, and magnesium are low. When breakfast eaters were classified into tertiles of daily dietary quality using the NRF Index, the intakes at breakfast of total sugar, total fat and sodium tended to decrease across the tertiles while the intakes of vitamins and minerals increased. Conclusion This study revealed that the majority of the population are regular breakfast eaters. However, the breakfasts consumed by Malaysian adults were found to be nutritionally unbalanced. This analysis could serve as a basis for nutrient recommendations grounded on the existing social and cultural breakfast patterns.

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The Malaysian Food Barometer Open Database: An Invitation to Study the Modernization of Malaysian Food Patterns and Its Economic and Health Consequences

Cited by 8 publications

References 17 publications

Eater-oriented knowledge framework for reducing salt and dietary sodium intake (scoping review)

Eater-oriented knowledge framework for reducing salt and dietary sodium intake (scoping review)

“Eating Out”, spatiality, temporality and sociality. A database for China, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and France

Breakfast Practices in Malaysia, Nutrient Intake and Diet Quality: A Study Based on the Malaysian Food Barometer

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