Nutrition

Foodomics

Identifying foods and food compounds in healthy diets leading to improved health outcomes

Nutrimetabolomics reveals food-specific compounds in urine of adults consuming a DASH-style diet

Although health benefits of the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet are established, it is not understood which food compounds result in these benefits. We used metabolomics to identify unique compounds from individual foods of a DASH-style diet and determined if these Food-Specific Compounds (FSC) are detectable in urine from participants in a DASH-style dietary study. Overall, this proof of principle study demonstrates that metabolomics can be used to catalog FSC, which can be detected in participant urine following a dietary intervention.