Global Diet Quality Project

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Minimum Dietary Diversity - Women (MDD-W) - SDG 2.2.4 All-5 Protective Food Consumption (PFC)

At least one vegetable At least one fruit At least one whole grain, pulse, nut, or seed

Unhealthy Food Consumption (UFC)

Soft drinks (soda, energy drinks, sports drinks)More than one sugary food or beverage More than one salty ultra-processed food Processed meats

Healthy Diet Pattern for prevention of chronic disease Zero vegetable or fruit consumption Dietary Diversity Score (DDS)NCD-Protect (score)NCD-Risk (score)GDR score

Food groups - plant-source

Starchy staple foods

Whole grains Foods made from grains White roots, tubers, or plantains

Pulses, nuts or seeds

Pulses Nuts or seeds

Vitamin A-rich orange vegetables Dark green leafy vegetables Other vegetables

Vitamin A-rich fruits Citrus Other fruits

Food groups - animal-source

Animal-source foods Dairy

Milk Yogurt Cheese

Eggs Meat, poultry, or fish

Fish or seafood Poultry Unprocessed red meat Unprocessed red meat (ruminants)Unprocessed red meat (non-ruminants)

Food groups - foods to limit

Fast food or instant noodles Salty or fried snacks

Packaged ultra-processed salty snacks Instant noodles Fast food Deep fried foods

Baked or grain-based sweets Other sweets

Sweet beverages

Soft drinks (soda, energy drinks, sports drinks)Sweet tea, coffee, or cocoa Fruit juice and fruit drinks

Required citation for use of the country-level results (for example, MDD-W prevalence in a country):

Global Diet Quality Project. 2024. “DQQ Results Dataset 2021-2024.” Harvard Dataverse. https://doi.org/doi:10.7910/DVN/KY3W8A. Accessed at dietquality.org on August 3, 2026.

You are free to use the DQQ data, under the terms of the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license under which they are published. You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.

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