BELTSVILLE, Md. ─ Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists have developed new food consumption survey methods that increase the accuracy of the ongoing national food intake survey, What We Eat In America. The new computer-assisted dietary recall method, called Automated Multiple-Pass Method, or AMPM, “involves a five-step interview process used to inquire about all eating occasions and all foods consumed during the previous 24-hour eating period.” Research findings revealed that the new method “enabled the volunteers to recall what they'd eaten to within 11 percent of the actual calories they used as a sample group.”
Source: USDA
