Risks and benefits related to consumption of vegetables

Scope

Purpose

To perform a benefit-risk assessment in order to find out what would be the effect of additional vitamins, in form of fortified foods or vitamin supplements, to children having a low vegetable diet.

Boundaries

• target age group: children 6 years
• countries: Finland, Ireland, Denmark, and Spain
• vitamins: A (beta-carotene), B6, C, D
• impacts:
  • D overdose
  • A, B6, C, D deficiency
  • Sugar, fat, impacts
  • life-long: obesity, CVD, Diabetes

Time limits (agreed milestones/deliverables):

• A summary table of the most important risks and benefits of vegetables vs. supplements and food fortification. (month 18)
• Final product (D40 Full benefit-risk analysis: vegetables) ready by month 34

Scenarios

• BAU (present situation)
• vitamin addition of _____ to low vegetable diet category

Intended users

• Parents of the children

Participants

Participants: KTL | TUDelft | FFiles | FSAI | DTU | FVST | Lendac | FIN

Person-months per participant: 7| 0| 0| 1| 1| 0| 0| 2

• Open (will be carried out on open website)

Definition

Decision variables

• Vitamin addition to a child's diet
  • in form of fortified foods (food fortification?)
  • in form of vitamin supplements

Analyses

• Prioritisation on the most important effects and uncertainties will be done using value-of-information method and other techniques