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NutriAIDE - Building smart food environments for improved nutrition - subproject 2 (NutriAIDE)
Project
Project code: 2820FENV06
Contract period: 01.07.2021
- 31.03.2025
Budget: 377,405 Euro
Purpose of research: Inventory & Assessment
Keywords: nutrition education, nutrition, nutrition competence, digital world, food pattern, modeling, obesity, human nutrition, nutritional information/recommendation, knowledge transfer, networking
The project examines the food comsumption patterns, nutrition-related decision-making, and self-quantification of overweight and obese urban middle-class consumers in India and develops an app-based approach to transform their respective food environments. Nutrition, geography, psychology, and sustainability researchers are collaborating with the private sector software developer Calvry Wellness Solutions Ltd. to design, test, and then launch an application software (app) called NutriAIDE. The app will empower consumers to change their food consumption patterns - currently characterized by a high demand for industrially processed foods and the associated intake of high levels of sugar, salt, and fat - in favour of eating nutritious, locally produced and plant-based foods. The app will assist consumers to measure and change their personal food routines in different social settings. As part of the collaborative project, the University Augsburg is responsible for the management and coordination of the overall project and aims to expand existing datasets on human nutrition through an analysis of the relationship between the area of activity, eating habits and health status of consumers in urban India. Better understanding of the local drivers of the global obesity epidemic will be used to develop and test an APP-based approach to nutrition-sensitive change in food environments and diets in urban centers. The project intends to answer the following research questions: (1) How are urban food environments and obesity in adulthood related to each other in India? (2) To what extent can urban obesogenic food environments in India be transformed with the help of an app designed for this purpose? (3) To what extent can the Indian obesity epidemic be curtailed through an app-based transformation of urban food environments? (4) How does the transformation of obesogenic food environments affect corresponding urban food systems in India?
Section overview
Subjects
- Nutritional behaviour
Funding programme
Excutive institution
German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbrücke (DIfE)
