A non-invasive assessment of skin carotenoid status through reflection spectroscopy is a feasible, reliable and potentially valid measure of fruit and vegetable consumption in a diverse community sample

Public Health Nutrition

Qiang Wu^3¹  Ronny A Bell^1²  Stephanie Bell Jilcott Pitts^1³  Kimberly P Truesdale^5⁴  Nancy E Moran^4⁵  Lisa Jahns^2⁶ 

[1] Department of Biostatistics,East Carolina University,Greenville,NC,USA^3;Department of Nutrition,University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,Chapel Hill,NC,USA^5;Department of Public Health,East Carolina University,600 Moye Boulevard,Mailstop 660,Greenville,NC 27834,USA^1;Division of Epidemiology And Community Health,University of Minnesota,Minneapolis,MN,USA^6;USDA/ARS Children’s Nutrition Research Center,Department of Pediatrics,Baylor College of Medicine,Houston,TX,USA^4;USDA/ARS Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center,Grand Forks,ND,USA^2

关键词: Fruit;    Vegetables;    Carotenoids;    Health promotion;   

DOI  :  10.1017/S136898001700430X

学科分类：卫生学

来源: Cambridge University Press

【 摘 要 】

To assess the feasibility, reliability and validity of reflection spectroscopy (RS) to assess skin carotenoids in a racially diverse sample.

【 授权许可】

CC BY