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Applied Human Nutrition

Applied human nutrition is the practical application of nutritional science to improve dietary intake, nutritional status, and health in individuals and populations. It translates knowledge of nutrient requirements, food composition, and metabolism into interventions such as nutrition education, dietary counselling,…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 89× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2379-7835 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Applied human nutrition is the practical application of nutritional science to improve dietary intake, nutritional status, and health in individuals and populations. It translates knowledge of nutrient requirements, food composition, and metabolism into interventions such as nutrition education, dietary counselling, food-based strategies, and programme design, and it relies on assessment methods including dietary recall, anthropometry, biochemical markers, and population surveys to characterize intake and need. The field spans the life course and a range of settings, integrating physiology and biochemistry with behavioural and social science to address both undernutrition and diet-related chronic disease. Peer-reviewed research in this area examines the impact of combining nutrition education with active food choice on children's fruit and vegetable consumption, the nutritional status and knowledge of adolescent girls, culturally tailored interventions to reduce cardio-metabolic risk in migrant communities, the relationship between diet and the gut microbiota, the toxicological significance of biogenic amines in foods, and novel digital tools for dietary assessment. Risk factors for childhood stunting and the ethical dimensions of nutrition research are also addressed. These studies employ intervention trials, cross-sectional surveys, and methodological evaluations across diverse populations. The journal publishes peer-reviewed research applying nutritional science to dietary practice, public-health nutrition, and the prevention and management of nutrition-related conditions.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2015

Epigenetics and Nutrition

Lundstrom KennethCorresponding author
PanTherapeuitcs, Rue des Remparts 4, CH1095 Lutry, Switzerland
International Journal of Nutrition Cited by 2 doi:10.14302/issn.2379-7835.ijn-14-603
2020

The Role of Biogenic Amines in Nutrition Toxicology: Review

Ozcelik FatihCorresponding author
University of Health Sciences, Sultan 2. Abdulhamid Han Training and Research Hospital, Department of Medical Biochemistry, Istanbul, Turkey
International Journal of Nutrition Cited by 20 doi:10.14302/issn.2379-7835.ijn-20-3171

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 89 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Applied Human Nutrition, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in International Journal of Nutrition (ISSN 2379-7835).

Journal editorial board
Kadri Koppel · United States Alicja Kuban-Jankowska · Poland Luigia Pazzagli · Italy

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