User-documented food consumption data from publicly available apps: an analysis of opportunities and challenges for nutrition research.
Background: The need for a better understanding of food consumption behaviour within its behavioural context has sparked the interest of nutrition researchers for user-documented food consumption data collected outside the research context using publicly available nutrition apps. The study aims to c...
| Publicado en: | Nutrition Journal Vol. 17; no. 1 |
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BioMed Central
6/9/2018
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