Using the Concept of Food Based Dietary Guidelines to Develop an Optimized Mixed Diet (OMD) for German Children and Adolescents

Abstract

Exact menus and food amounts are a prerequisite to ascertain nutrient adequacy of FBDG. The OMD demonstrates that a single diet concept with a core of quantified food groups can be adequate for age groups between 1 and 18 years within a country, such as Germany.