Mediterranean Diet Assistant

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People who eat a Mediterranean diet have longer, healthier, disability-free lives than people eating a Western ultra-processed food diet. Use this icon-based visual aid to help you follow a Mediterranean diet to prevent or manage many heart and circulatory, brain, bone, colorectal, joint, metabolic and skin diseases, many types of cancer, and sepsis. A Mediterranean diet has also been shown to prevent many age-linked diseases such as sarcopenia, age-related macular degeneration and chronic kidney disease. The foods to eat daily (vegetables, fruit, wholegrains, olive oil, low-fat dairy, herbs & spices, and nuts & seeds), at least twice weekly (legumes, oily fish, egg, potato, and white meat), and only occasionally (red wine, red meat, processed meat, and sweets) are depicted visually. The app includes icons and nutrition details for 19 wholegrains, 66 vegetables, 39 fruits, 12 oily fish, 15 white fish & seafood, 20 herbs & spices, 17 nuts & seeds, 19 legumes, 4 low-fat dairy foods and 2 types of olive oil. You can add these to your daily food log, your favourites, and your shopping list, and the app will let you know which food groups you need to add to your consumption for the day to adhere to the Mediterranean diet.