What's new

Here is where you can get up to date on Intake's most recent news and announcements.  We also provide links below to selected recent publications and news articles, and other noteworthy items and events relevant to the collection, analysis and use of dietary data. 

News & Announcements

GDQS Meal and Menu Metric Toolkit

September 16, 2025

The GDQS Meal and Menu metrics were developed to measure the nutritional quality of meals and menus provided in institutional feeding settings (e.g., school meal programs) while also providing actionable data related to the inclusion of healthy foods, unhealthy foods, fortified and biofortified foods, and food group diversity. This Toolkit was developed as part of Intake's efforts to ensure the easy adoption of the GDQS Meal and Menu metrics. The Toolkit is divided into four sections: 1) A Primer; 2) A Policy Brief for Decision-Makers; 3) Talking Points for School Meal Advocates; and 4)…

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Intake Short Course on the GDQS App and Metric

June 24, 2025

Intake is offering a no cost, remote on-line short course on the Global Diet Quality Score (GDQS) app and metric in September 2025. The course comprises four 90-minute sessions and provides theoretical and practical skills related to the collection, analysis, and interpretation of GDQS data. Two different sets of dates for the course are being offered. If you are interested to participate in the course, please sign up at the link below and indicate which of the two sets of dates will work best for your schedule. We will contact you in August to confirm your enrollment and provide you with…

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New Research: Validation of the GDQS for Children and Development of the GDQS-Meal and Menu Metrics

June 6, 2025

A set of seven research articles have been published in Nutrition Reviews as a Special Supplemental Issue focused on research to validate the Global Diet Quality Score (GDQS) metric for children; and research to develop the GDQS-Meal and Menu metrics for use in institutional feeding settings. The Supplemental Issue can be accessed here at no cost: Volume 83 Issue Supplement_1 | Nutrition Reviews | Oxford Academic

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New Research Article: Validation of Two Portion Size Estimation Methods for Use with the Global Diet Quality Score (GDQS) App

May 5, 2025

Intake's study to validate two portion size estimation methods with use of the Global Diet Quality Score (GDQS) app was recently published in the journal, Nutrients. The study assessed whether using the GDQS app with respondents reporting the amount consumed for each food group using a fixed set of 10 three-dimensional cubes of specified size; or with playdough was equivalent to the GDQS estimated by weighed food record (WFR) for the same 24 hour reference period. Results showed that using the GDQS app with cubes or playdough was equivalent to the WFR in assessing diet quality as measured…

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Deadline Extended until March 7 to Apply to Participate in Intake's Dietary Assessment Course

February 27, 2025

Intake is offering a remote, no-cost dietary assessment course. Please read more about the course here. There is no cost to participate in the course, but you must apply to be considered for enrollment. The application period for the 2025 cohort has been extended by one week. The deadline for submitting applications is now March 7, 2025 at 5pm Eastern Time.  We expect this will be the last cohort of participants we will be able to enroll in the course under our current…

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