Evidence

The peer-reviewed record behind food is medicine.

157 peer-reviewed, citable studies, each with its full citation, journal, and a link to the published paper, spanning decades of nutrition science from randomized clinical trials to national policy analysis.

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Food Compass Score vs FDA healthy labeling and consumer purchases: a randomized clinical trial

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Fan B, Fuller K, Sharib JR, Pomeranz JL, Wang M, Wang L, Mozaffarian D, Cash SB

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Food Compass Score vs FDA healthy labeling and consumer purchases: a randomized clinical trial

MAHA Commission Report and Diet-Related Diseases in Youth–Reply

Development and validation of a brief Nutrition Security Screener (NSS) for clinical and public health settings

Nutritional priorities to support GLP-1 therapy for obesity: A joint advisory from the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, the American Society for Nutrition, the Obesity Medicine Association, and the Obesity Society

Food Compass Score-10: validation of a method for evaluating the healthfulness of foods and beverages using ingredient list information

Nutritional priorities to support GLP-1 therapy for obesity: A joint advisory from the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, the American Society for Nutrition, the Obesity Medicine Association, and the Obesity Society

Advancing The FDA’s Human Foods Program Through Additional Authorities And User Fees

Facilitators and barriers to reach and enrollment into a medically tailored meals program within a section 1115 Medicaid pilot: clinic staff perspectives

The 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines–Time for Real Progress

Food Insecurity and Poor Health: Unraveling the Mechanisms, Informing Better Solutions

Burdens of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease attributable to sugar-sweetened beverages in 184 countries

The Dietary Guidelines for Americans-is the evidence bar too low or too high?

Produce prescription benefits redemption and activity in an observational study of 2680 Massachusetts Medicaid members

Food Compass 2.0 is an improved nutrient profiling system to characterize healthfulness of foods and beverages

Disclosure of mandatory and voluntary nutrition labelling information across major online food retailers in the USA

Defining a healthy diet globally: The good, the bad, and the ugly

Food is Medicine National Summit: Transforming Health Care

Trimethylamine N-Oxide and Related Gut Microbe-Derived Metabolites and Incident Heart Failure Development in Community-Based Populations

Regulation of Added Substances in the Food Supply by the Food and Drug Administration Human Foods Program

Trends in Diet Quality Among U.S. Adults From 1999 to 2020 by Race, Ethnicity, and Socioeconomic Disadvantage

Rationale and design of the KP ENRICH trial: A food is medicine intervention in low-income high-risk adults with diabetes within Kaiser Permanente

The Gut Microbial Metabolite Trimethylamine N -oxide, Incident CKD, and Kidney Function Decline

Plant-Based Diets and Diabetes Risk: Which Foods, What Mechanisms?

Plant-Based Diets and Diabetes Risk: Which Foods, What Mechanisms?

Developing a national nutrition policy strategy to advance cardiometabolic health and health equity

GLP-1 Agonists for Obesity–A New Recipe for Success?

“Food Is Medicine” Strategies for Nutrition Security and Cardiometabolic Health Equity: JACC State-of-the-Art Review

The Evolution and Scope of Medicaid Section 1115 Demonstrations to Address Nutrition: a US Survey

How prices and income influence global patterns in saturated fat intake by age, sex and world region: a cross-sectional analysis of 160 countries

Harmonising dietary datasets for global surveillance: methods and findings from the Global Dietary Database

Is that Hospital Food Pantry an Illegal Patient Inducement? Analysis of Health Care Fraud Laws as Barriers to Food and Nutrition Security Interventions

Development and Validation of the US Diabetes, Obesity, Cardiovascular Disease Microsimulation (DOC-M) Model: Health Disparity and Economic Impact Model.

Circulating Omega-3 and Omega-6 Fatty Acids, Cognitive Decline, and Dementia in Older Adults.

Consumption of Ultraprocessed Foods and Body Fat Distribution Among U.S. Adults

Impact of Produce Prescriptions on Diet, Food Security, and Cardiometabolic Health Outcomes: A Multisite Evaluation of 9 Produce Prescription Programs in the United States.

Health and Economic Impacts of Implementing Produce Prescription Programs for Diabetes in the United States: A Microsimulation Study.

Identifying Nutritional Priorities for Global Health: Time for a More PURE Focus on Protective Foods

Trimethylamine N-oxide is associated with long-term mortality risk: the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis

Machine learning prediction of the degree of food processing.

Measuring and Addressing Nutrition Security to Achieve Health And Health Equity

Measuring And Addressing Nutrition Security To Achieve Health And Health Equity

Evaluation of a Produce Prescription Program for Patients With Diabetes: A Longitudinal Analysis of Glycemic Control.

Food Marketing to – and Research on – Children: New Directions for Regulation in the United States

Association of National Expansion of Insurance Coverage of Medically Tailored Meals With Estimated Hospitalizations and Health Care Expenditures in the US

Longitudinal Associations of Plasma TMAO and Related Metabolites with Cognitive Impairment and Dementia in Older Adults: The Cardiovascular Health Study

A Food is Medicine Approach to Achieve Nutrition Security and Improve Health

Dietary Meat, Trimethylamine N-Oxide-Related Metabolites, and Incident Cardiovascular Disease Among Older Adults: The Cardiovascular Health Study

Reply to: Food Compass novelty and NOVA category assignments.

Trimethylamine N-oxide and hip fracture and bone mineral density in older adults: The cardiovascular health study

Implications of the New Recommendation on Behavioral Counseling Interventions to Promote Healthy Eating and Physical Activity

State Preemption of Consumer Merchandise and Beverage Containers: New Strategy to Preempt Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Policies?

Perspective: Obesity- An Unexplained Epidemic

Association of Trimethylamine N-Oxide and Metabolites With Mortality in Older Adults

Trans Fatty Acid Biomarkers and Incident Type 2 Diabetes: Pooled Analysis of 12 Prospective Cohort Studies in the Fatty Acids and Outcomes Research Consortium (FORCE)

Consumption of Ultraprocessed Foods and Diet Quality Among U.S. Children and Adults.

Evaluation of the Quality of Evidence of the Association of Foods and Nutrients With Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes: A Systematic Review.

Prescription ω-3 Therapy to Reduce Triglyceride Levels-A New Horizon for Cost-effective Therapy

The time is ripe for ESG + Nutrition: evidence-based nutrition metrics for Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing.

Opportunities to Address the Failure of Online Food Retailers to Ensure Access to Required Food Labelling Information in the USA

Food Compass is a nutrient profiling system using expanded characteristics for assessing healthfulness of foods.

Food Compass is a nutrient profiling system using expanded characteristics for assessing healthfulness of foods.

Health Impact and Cost-Effectiveness of Achieving the National Salt and Sugar Reduction Initiative Voluntary Sugar Reduction Targets in the United States: A Microsimulation Study

Healthy Food Prescription Programs and their Impact on Dietary Behavior and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Effectiveness of workplace wellness programmes for dietary habits, overweight, and cardiometabolic health: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Association of Trimethylamine N-Oxide and Related Metabolites in Plasma and Incident Type 2 Diabetes The Cardiovascular Health Study

Longitudinal Plasma Measures of Trimethylamine N-Oxide and Risk of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Events in Community-Based Older Adults

Impact of diet on CVD and diabetes mortality in Latin America and the Caribbean: a comparative risk assessment analysis.

Prioritizing Nutrition Security in the US.

Cost-effectiveness Analysis of Nutrition Facts Added-Sugar Labeling and Obesity-Associated Cancer Rates in the US.

Evaluation of health and economic effects of United States school meal standards consistent with the 2020-2025 dietary guidelines for Americans

A Natural Experiment to Evaluate the Nutritional Content of Restaurant Meal Purchases After Calorie Labeling

The Promise and Uncertainty of Fruit and Vegetable Prescriptions in Health Care.

Legal Feasibility and Implementation of Federal Strategies for a National Retail-Based Fruit and Vegetable Subsidy Program in the United States

Cost-Effectiveness of a National Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax to Reduce Cancer Burdens and Disparities in the United States.

Defining Diet Quality: A Synthesis of Dietary Quality Metrics and Their Validity for the Double Burden of Malnutrition

Nutrient Profiling Systems, Front of Pack Labeling, and Consumer Behavior

Coronavirus Disease 2019 Hospitalizations Attributable to Cardiometabolic Conditions in the United States: A Comparative Risk Assessment Analysis.

Dietary fats and cardiometabolic disease: mechanisms and effects on risk factors and outcomes