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June 3, 2026Discover Public HealthOpen Access

A systematic review of tools for measuring food and nutrition literacy in healthy adults

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FKFarzam KamraniPGParisa GholambareshiZBZahra Bayranj

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Systematic review evaluates food and nutrition literacy tools in healthy adults, indicating improvement needs in interactive and critical assessments.

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  • This review aims to evaluate tools that measure food and nutrition literacy in healthy adults, focusing on different literacy dimensions.
  • Conducted a systematic review following PRISMA guidelines, searching multiple databases for relevant studies.
  • Included original research on tools assessing food or nutrition literacy in healthy adults published until October 2024.
  • Evaluated study quality using the Jolles et al. framework; analyzed 23 studies for their focus on functional, interactive, and critical literacy.
  • Identified 23 studies; 22 developed or validated quantitative measurement tools from various countries.
  • 74% of tools emphasized functional literacy, while 35% covered interactive and 57% addressed critical literacy dimensions.
  • Tools showed variability in structure and cultural relevance, with most demonstrating intermediate to high reliability.

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Kamrani et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a1fc4e4dee9eb8c0dce650ahttps://doi.org/10.1186/s12982-026-02188-3
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