Table 3 Experts evaluation of GloboDiet sections and response address

General information

Adequate, useful, applicable, comprehensive, easily understandable, complete, excellent, simple, concise and relevant

Additional: dwelling place, marital status, number of children, education, physical activity, breastfeeding status, employment status

Actually handled by additional questionnaire(s) (non-dietary data to be merged with dietary data)

Adaptation: delete participant name, measure weight and height instead of self-reporting

Local interview training issue

Ask age instead of birth date, non-consideration of sickness and travel days as special days, ask for diet-related diseases directly

These requests can be addressed in GloboDiet

Quick list

Easy, comprehensive, good, useful features, clear, appropriate, detail-focused, intuitive, interesting

Adaptation: ask for daily activities of the interviewee to capture food consumption occasions

Adaptation of food consumption occasions list and local training issue

Description of foods and recipes

Relevant aspects covered, detailed, comprehensive, clear

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Adaptation of the foods and recipes lists

Necessity to contextualize

Additional: sun drying, smoking, mortar and peddle pounding, stone grounding, sifting, gifts, home production

Study how to link to existing GloboDiet facets/descriptors

Possibility to add new descriptors and facets.

Adaptation: possibility to delete packaging, all the facets related to canned fruits and vegetables

Adaptation of the facets and descriptors databases to local situations

Quantification of foods and recipes

Satisfactory (see Fig. 2)

Adaptation: Clear distinction between urban and rural areas

Adaptation of the quantification methods to local settings

Have pictures of local foods without fork and knife, local HHMs

Create local picture books with local HHMs, foods/recipes,

Use local standard units

SU (be sure about the cultivars), real foods, handful and soft food scoping

Quantification method to be linked to volume

Food models, salted replicas,

Weight method

Onsite weighing

New quantification approach to be defined.

Shared plate

Study/validation of method “shared plate”.

Probing questions

Important, relevant

Additional: wild foods and fruits picking

Actually handled at the quick list step

Training issue

Quality controls

Needed, important

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Well-grounded in GloboDiet

Dietary supplements

Relevant, adapted, necessary, good, helpful, appropriate

Definition of dietary supplements is not clear in Africa

There is need to clearly define dietary supplements before inclusion in Globodiet databases (as food, dietary supplements, or both)

Additional: “tonic” and “energy-booster” plant by-products