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A measure of the health and well-being of the individual in relation to the intake of essential nutrients. The relationship between intake of nutrients and individual requirements.  

A component of medical treatment that includes enteral and parenteral nutrition as well as disease- specific therapeutic diets. Intervention, management, and counseling of individuals on appropriate food choices to meet their nutrient needs.  

Process of identifying characteristics associated with dietary and nutritional problems.  

A system for ranking and/or classifying foods based on their nutritive value.  

The amounts of nutrients absolutely required by an individual to avoid the symptoms of deficiency disease and to optimize health and well-being.  

A mutation that completely eliminates the function of a gene, usually because it has been deleted. A change in DNA or RNA that does not result in any change in the protein product or content of a cell.  

A measure of the biological value of a dietary protein based on the amount of protein retained in the body as a percentage of that consumed.  

A food that the consumer has never eaten or a food newly developed by food manufacturers.  

Ranges of values for nutrients and metabolites in blood.  

The highest concentration of a substance that may be administered to a test animal in any way without causing that animal to be distinguishable from a control to which the substance is not administered.