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The Development and Potential of a Digital out of Home Food Environment Monitoring Platform

Nutrients · 8 authors, 2 centres

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This paper describes the development of a WHO digital platform that uses publicly available data from meal delivery apps to monitor the out-of-home food environment.

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The authors present a methodology paper describing the development of a novel digital platform by the WHO to monitor the out-of-home food environment using publicly available data from meal delivery applications. However, the study highlights significant limitations, primarily the lack of standardized, mandatory nutrition data reporting from meal delivery platforms and the inability to access individual user data. The implications suggest that while the platform is a promising tool for understanding the digital food environment, its full potential for informing policy and consumer choices is currently constrained by data availability and quality inconsistencies.

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PMC10536807

The Development and Potential of a Digital out of Home Food Environment Monitoring Platform

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The rapidly growing field of digital meal delivery platforms has transformed the out of home (OOH) food environment, presenting both opportunities and challenges for public health. This paper introduces the development and potential of a novel digital platform designed for monitoring the OOH food environment. Drawing on publicly available data from meal delivery applications, this platform provides valuable insights into the landscape of digital food offerings, such as the most common restaurants per region, average caloric content per meal type, and energy value per monetary unit. This research addresses the current void in regulations for this digital environment, particularly around food labeling and provision of nutrition information. Even though the platform has significantly improved our understanding of the digital food ecosystem, it highlights gaps, primarily due to the lack of publicly available individual data and inconsistencies in provided information. Despite these challenges, the proposed digital platform holds considerable promise for better understanding the digital food environment, supporting healthier food choices, and informing future policy interventions aimed at regulating the online food environment. This research advocates for mandatory regulations in the digital food sector to ensure comprehensive, comparable, and transparent nutrition information and equality in access to nutritious foods.

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Kathrin Hetz, Nuwan Weerasinghe, Holly Rippin et al.. The Development and Potential of a Digital out of Home Food Environment Monitoring Platform. Nutrients. (2023). https://doi.org/10.3390/nu15183887

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Kathrin Hetz, Nuwan Weerasinghe, Holly Rippin, Kremlin Wickramasinghe, Olga Zhiteneva, Muhammad Arslan Usman, Christos Politis, Gauden Galea

1World Health Organization European Office for the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases, Special Initiative on NCDs and Innovation, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark; [email protected] (N.W.); [email protected] (H.R.); [email protected] (K.W.); [email protected] (O.Z.); [email protected] (G.G.)
2Faculty of Science, Engineering and Computing, Kingston University London, Kingston upon Thames, London KT1 2EE, UK; [email protected] (M.A.U.); [email protected] (C.P.)

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