Food Pyramid App Healthy Food for Healthy Life

Food Pyramid App Healthy Food for Healthy Life EU Datathon Nov. 16 th, 2017, Brussels

Contents q. Background Choice q. Objectives q. Solution – Used Data q. Comprehensive Food Consumption Data q. Food. Pyramid App q. Insights q. Vision for Future Work © Oehoe Data Science 2017 -2 -

Background Choice to work with Food Data q. Active in data science for healthcare and healthy living q. Customer active in food inspection, risk stratification & outbreak control q. Interest to use food data science for internal EU and export purpose q. New food pyramid introduced in Flanders around start of EU Datathon q. Access to data from European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) © Oehoe Data Science 2017 -3 -

Objectives q Create insight by mapping food consumption to food pyramid values q Research questions: is there a difference in food consumption patterns between EU regions? q Is there a difference between actual and ideal situation? If so, can EU take the lead to guide investments in healthier food supply and create jobs in those sectors? Assumption: we take the Flemish Food Pyramid as a given and want to test hypotheses against performance in different EU countries © Oehoe Data Science 2017 -4 -

EFSA Comprehensive Food Consumption Database 1 1. 2. 3 1. 2. 4 2 2. 1 … Food. Ex 1 (3 levels) 1174 items © Oehoe Data Science 2017 Survey … … … … Population Class Food. Ex 1 (Level 1, 2, 3) Mean consumption

Flemish Food Pyramid Drinks Vegetables, Fruits, Full Grains, Seeds, Vegetable Oil, Unsaturated Fatty Acids Fish, Yoghurt, Milk, Cheese, Poultry, Eggs Red Meat, Butter, Coconut & Palm Oil, Saturated Fatty Acids Source: Voedingsdriehoek, Vlaams Instituut Gezond Leven, gezondleven. be © Oehoe Data Science 2017 -6 - Prepared Meat, Soda, Alcohol, Candies

Flemish Food Pyramid Legend 1 1. 2 1. 3 1. 4 2. 1 2. 2 2. 3 … Zone 1 Zone 2 Zone 3 Zone 4 Zone 5 Zone 6 Food. Pyramid (2 levels) 260 items © Oehoe Data Science 2017 -7 -

Mapping the two classifications 1 1. 2 1. 3 1. 4 2. 1 2. 2 2. 3 … 1 1. 2. 3 1. 2. 4 2 2. 1 … Food. Pyramid (2 levels) Food. Ex 1 (3 levels) Some assumptions made © Oehoe Data Science 2017 -8 -

Food Pyramid App © Oehoe Data Science 2017 -9 -

BMI and food zones R 2 close to 0 © Oehoe Data Science 2017 - 10 -

Insights q. Toddlers and Children follow the ‘ideal’ food pyramid well q. Deviation from ‘ideal’ starts from Adolescents onwards q. Adults § Hungary and Romania drink relatively less § Ireland The Netherlands consume relatively more unhealthy food q. Very Elderly people § Consume relatively less unhealthy food © Oehoe Data Science 2017 - 11 -

Vision for Future Work q. Analyze differences on demand for (un)healthy food q. Analyze EU food production & supply per category q. Create mapping between demand / supply q. Study impact on investment needed, jobs & growth ! ? Demand Food Pyramid Supply Food Pyramid © Oehoe Data Science 2017 - 12 - ? Investment Food Pyramid

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