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Crit Rev Food Sci Nutr2025;65(30):7151-7169.January 1, 2025Journal Article

Personalized nutrition: perspectives on challenges, opportunities, and guiding principles for data use and fusion.

Sharon M Donovan1, Mariette Abrahams2, Joshua C Anthony3, Ying Bao4, Maribel Barragan5, Kate M Bermingham6, Gil Blander7, Anna-Sigrid Keck5, Bruce Y Lee8, Kristin M Nieman3, Jose M Ordovas9, Victor Penev10, Machiel J Reinders11, Kris Sollid12, Sumeet Thosar5, Barbara L Winters3
1Personalized Nutrition Initiative, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, and the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.
2Qina, Ltd, Olhao, Portugal.
3Nlumn, LLC, Princeton, NJ, USA.
4Gies College of Business, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.
5Personalized Nutrition Initiative, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.
6Zoe Ltd, London, UK, Department of Nutritional Sciences, King's College London, London, UK.
7Segterra (InsideTracker), Cambridge, MA, USA.
8Artificial Intelligence, Modeling, and Informatics for Nutrition Guidance and Systems (AIMINGS) Center, PHICOR, and the Center for Advanced Technology and Communication in Health (CATCH), at the City University of New York (CUNY), Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, New York City, NY, USA.
9Nutrition and Genomics Laboratory, JM-USDA-Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University, Boston, MA, USA.
10Edamam, LLC, New York, NY, USA.
11Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen Social & Economic Research, the Hague, the Netherlands.
12International Food Information Council, Washington, DC, USA.

Abstract

Personalized nutrition (PN) delivers tailored dietary guidance by integrating health, lifestyle, and behavioral data to improve individual health outcomes. Recent technological advances have enhanced access to diverse data sources, yet challenges remain in collecting, integrating, and analyzing complex datasets. To address these, the Personalized Nutrition Initiative at Illinois organized a worksh…

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