Accurately determining food intake remains a substantial challenge in nutrition research. This issue of Nature Metabolism introduces a methodology for assessing dietary intake, using stool metagenomic data to detect food DNA from a broad range of foods.
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Dragsted, L.O., Roager, H.M. & Cuparencu, C. Querying stool for dietary information. Nat Metab 7, 450–451 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42255-025-01219-8
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