Thursday, 3rd December Nutrition Society of Australia 50th Annual Scientific Meeting 2026

• Past insights and future directions: Evidence-led policy actions to promote healthy diets – learnings from Mexico’ & Ultra-Processed Foods and the Global Burden of Obesity and Noncommunicable Diseases - Simon Barquera
• From Anxiety to Alzheimer's: Nutritional Psychiatry for the prevention and treatment of mental and brain disorders - Felice Jacka
• Diet, Gut Health and the Microbiome: Fifty years of Progress and the Road Ahead - Damien Belobrajdic

• Review of the Healthy Food Partnership Reformulation Program to support improved population diets in Australia - Laura Hatt
• The Food and Bodies Project - Anneliese Twigg
• Does consumer testing inform the development of food-based dietary guidelines worldwide? A scoping review and lessons for Australia - Carrie Wong
• How accurately do consumers identify ultra-processed foods? An analysis of Reddit data - Jocelyn Landgraf
• Changes in the Health Star Rating, protein, and fibre content of Australian breakfast cereals from 2021 to 2025 - Elizabeth Neale
• How big should a treat be? A scoping review of discretionary food portion size guidance for children - Monica Qingzhou Liu
• Children’s self-selected portion sizes: associations with liking, familiarity, perceived healthiness and anthropometric measures - Zhen Yu

• What’s on the plate? A scoping review of artificial intelligence approaches to food image recognition, volume estimation, and nutrient estimation - Virginia Chan
• Evaluating the application of the NOVA classification to food frequency questionnaires in studies of ultra-processed food consumption: a systematic review    - Aiswarya AM Menon
• Spectroscopy-derived skin carotenoid levels and their association with fruit and vegetable intake among Australian university students - Emma Guerrieri-Cortesi
• Micronutrient intakes and adequacy among Australian school-aged children: findings from the 2023 National Nutrition and Physical Activity Survey - Ewa A. Szymlek-Gay
• Bitter taste sensitivity, diet quality and eating behaviour in Australian adults new cross-sectional evidence - Alia Shareef
• Balancing measurement precision, conceptual breadth and feasibility in food literacy assessment - Nawoda Hewage
• Exploring the use of point-of-sale systems in remote Australian stores for nutrition-related decision making - Amanda Hill

• Effects of nut consumption patterns on the 24-hour glucose homeostasis of adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus: A pilot study - Zhen Yu
• Past insights, current evidence and future directions for chestnut-mediated glycaemic control. - Michael J Houghton
• Appetite-modulating effects of phytochemical-rich plant extracts: evidence from literature, human cells and a clinical trial   - Woon Yao Chai
• Dietary vitamin K intakes and risk of lung cancer: findings from two large prospective cohort studies - Chengfeng Li
• Associations between fat type and risk of relapse in Australian adults with multiple sclerosis - Barbara Brayner
• How does dietary macronutrient composition across the lifespan influence the cardiac proteome in male and female mice? - Meng Yuan
• Synthesising evidence on the relationship between genetics, diet and blood pressure: A systematic review of observational and intervention studies - Xiao Tian Loh

• Bite into action: Mobilising dietary change for planetary health through an engaging experiential challenge - Halle Yip
• Applying statistical process control methodology to implement an adaptive sampling schedule for pre-consumer food waste from Quick-Service Restaurants. - Asgiri Jayasekara
• Behaviour change techniques promoting sustainable food consumption: a systematic review of individual-level, sustainability-framed dietary interventions - Ebony Hol
• Beyond reflection to direction: using interdisciplinary perspectives to define nutrition professionals’ roles in food systems transformation - Anita Stefoska-Needham
• Evaluation of an online dietary intervention to improve adherence to healthy and sustainable diets in young Australia adults: a pre-post intervention study - Bill T Lam
• Nutrient content of Australian plant-based meat and dairy alternatives - Katherine M Livingstone
• Comparison of nutrient composition, product labelling and processing classification of plant-based and animal-based counterparts sold in Australian supermarkets - Madhumali Sethunga Mudalige Dona

• Assessing the potential enablers and barriers in the implementation of time-restricted eating among individuals with obstructive sleep apnoea, their partners and health professionals: a qualitative study - Yi Ning Yong
• The effect of time-restricted eating on body composition in adults with or at high risk of cardiovascular disease: a systematic review - Tian Wang
• Timing matters: associations between women's chronotype, their body composition and dietary time-periods - Rozanne Kruger
• The association of a high-quality diet with the incidence of and mortality from chronic disease in the UK Biobank cohort. A systematic review - Margaret Allman-Farinelli
• Adherence to a Mediterranean diet and intensity of endometriosis symptoms: A cross-sectional analysis of Australian women - Evangeline Mantzioris
• Exploring food literacy as an approach to support following dietary advice among people living with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a qualitative co-design study in Sri Lanka - Manoja Gamage

• From rural Food Stories to the Urban Table: A longitudinal community-based indigenous food innovation model to strengthen nutrition education in Timor-Leste - Safira Esperanca Da Cruz Carvalho
• Exploring young adults’ experiences of using a web-based personalised healthy eating intervention for rural communities: a qualitative study - Katherine M Livingstone
• Designing nutrition-smart seaweed and rock oyster mariculture in Fiji: understanding gendered pathways to food, income and agency - Libby Swanepoel
• A Population-based Study of the Factors Associated with Food Insecurity among Women of Reproductive Age in Nigeria. - Chioma Anidi
• Preparing the workforce for real-world advocacy: a public health nutrition simulation with virtual policy-makers - Liza Barbour
• Young adults appreciate credible, relatable and entertaining nutrition messages on social media: A systematic literature review - Margaret Murray
• Acceptability of miracle fruit in modifying taste intensities and food preferences: A qualitative study - Shashya Diyapaththugama

• Distinct metabolic responses to dietary carbohydrates in Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations: a systematic review - April Foster-Powell
• Longitudinal associations between lean mass and lumbar spine bone mineral density in professional jockeys undergoing chronic weight management - John O'Reilly
• Do adolescent and young adult athletes meet nutrition recommendations? A systematic review - Chloe J. Otte
• Eight weeks of 4 g/day krill oil supplementation increases Omega-3 Index and may attenuate pressure pain sensitivity after exercise-induced muscle damage: a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial - Elham Yaghoobi
• Feeding the World's Athletes: Developing a Global Catering Framework for Brisbane 2032 and Beyond   - Fiona Pelly
• Measuring the glycemic index of Australian soft drinks. - Fiona S Atkinson
• Not all protein is equal: exploring knowledge and understanding of protein quality - Susan McLeod

• Effects of branched-chain amino acids with or without tryptophan or methionine on appetite control in older adults: preliminary findings from a randomised controlled trial - Shulin SZ Zhang
• Association between nut intake and biological ageing in United States adults - Barbara Cardoso
• Impact of current standard texture modified foods on health and quality of life of aged care residents with dysphagia: A systematic review. - Kavitha Karthik Mrs Pai
• The Impact of Dietary Patterns on Cognition and Dementia in Older Adults – A Systematic Review of Randomised Controlled Trials - Malika Fernando
• Diet quality and depressive symptoms in older adults, assessing the effect modification by genetic predisposition and low-grade inflammation: a target trial emulation - Belayneh Miteku
• Joint effects of dietary patterns, sleep duration and regularity on colorectal cancer risk - Zegeye Abebe
• Healthy dietary patterns and musculoskeletal pain in adults: a systematic review - Susan Ward

• Food literacy influences on dietary intake and behaviours among adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a scoping review - Alicia Callahan
• Commercial drivers and determinants are structural barriers to achieving sustainable horticulture in Australia - Rebecca Voisin
• Food and Mood: Exploring the determinants of eating and dietary behaviours that support wellbeing in young adults with symptoms of poor mental health - Nicola A Gillies
• What Matters to Consumers? Experiences of Low-Energy Formula Diet Interventions for Type 2 Diabetes Management –  A Scoping Review - Monica Qingzhou Liu
• Consumer priorities for developing a diet and mental health resource for people with multiple sclerosis - Georgia Brice
• The Effects of Acute Circadian Misalignment on Glucose Metabolism in Healthy Adults: A Scoping Review - Alisar Kanjrawi
• Associations between sleep health and diet quality and dietary intake during pregnancy: evidence from two Australian cohorts. - Sasha Fenton

• Diabetes, paid work participation and workplace self-management among women: a literature review - Xiaotong Yu
• Nutrition knowledge and diet quality among outpatients with type 2 diabetes in Vietnam - Nguyen Thi Minh Trang
• Do high linoleic acid and low α-linolenic acid diets create a dependency on marine fatty acids? - Bob Gibson
• From diet to deposition: a process-based model of fatty acid dynamics in farmed Atlantic salmon - Yifan Qian
• Sex-dependent effects of chronic exposure to a glyphosate-based herbicide on glucose metabolism and liver oxidative stress markers and heat shock proteins - Thiago G Heck
• A fatty acid melting-point gradient reveals n-3 PUFA metabolism and lipid remodelling in zebrafish liver cells - Manxi Zhao
• Using nutrient interactions to uncover the nutritional and signalling requirements to sustain life in Drosophila melanogaster - Matteo Forte

• Daily protein quality score (DPQS): A novel framework for assessment of protein quality - Rikke Sand Andersen
• Effects of six months peanut butter supplementation on telomere length in community dwelling older adults - Jeew Hettiarachchi
• Adaptation and psychometric evaluation of the Asian Indian Dietary Acculturation Measure for first-generation Indian immigrants living in Australia - Swati Bachani-Singh
• Gastrointestinal symptom incidence and severity are associated with reduced resting metabolicrate in female athletes – A pilot exploration. - Angela Taylor
• Culturally tailored nutrition interventions for increasing fruit and vegetable intake in culturally and linguistically diverse populations: a systematic review - Simin Samavat
• Community‑based approaches to advancing food security among migrant and refugee communities in high‑income countries - Kim McCormack
• Diet quality is not related to physical function in healthy community-dwelling older women - Annalise Macriyiannis
• Role of Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids in Cognition and Physical Function in Older Adults with Subjective Memory Impairment   - Prachi Kulkarni

• How do health professionals use food packaging in the clinical setting? A scoping review   - Debora Judah
• Nutrition‑sensitive agriculture and stunting: prototype index development with Indonesian open data - Hana Fitria Navratilova
• Still hungry: Post COVID-19 food insecurity and prohibitive cost of food worsen among a Sydney university cohort. - Margaret Allman-Farinelli
• From Outbreak Surveillance to Predictive Microbiology: Modeling Bacillus cereus Growth in Cooked Rice in Indonesia's Free Nutritious Meal Program - Dafrina Kalyla Lofriman
• Knowledge, beliefs, and purchasing behaviours regarding dietary inorganic nitrate among the general population and healthcare professionals: a multinational cross-sectional survey - Van V Nguyen
• Changes in reported intakes of discretionary foods high in added sugars between Australian national dietary surveys in 2011 and 2023 - Adrian Lam
• Nutritional quality of the product portfolios from the major food companies in Canada, relative to Canada’s front of package labelling requirements - Mary L'Abbe
• Characterising Nutrition-Related Content and User Engagement in Popular TikTok Videos and Comments  - Alexander JS Obery

• Early-life dietary exposures and later reproductive health: What does the evidence tell us? - Anteneh Mengist Dessie
• Toddler milk composition in Australia and New Zealand    - Marco McVey
• Acute cardiovascular effects of an L-Theanine and L-Glycine beverage in postmenopausal women at rest: Protocol for a randomised controlled trial - Harshini Meegaswatte
• protective effects of vitamin E on testicular functions of male wistar rats exposed to gasoline-fume and cigarette smoke - Ogechukwu E Ezim
• Systemic and gonadal effects of the N-hexane and the aqueous ethanol extracts of the defatted marc of fluted pumpkin seeds in adult Wistar rats - Ogechukwu E Ezim
• Early life factors and BMI trajectories of children born to Indian immigrant mothers in Australia - Chitra Tulpule

• Food systems resilience relies on investing in and prioritising nature - Christina Vogel
• Traditional food practices and sustainable dietary transitions among Saudi women: A qualitative study - FATEN ALHARBI
• Creation of an updated database applying Global Warming Potential Star (GWP*) values to the AUSNUT 2023 food composition database - Elizabeth Neale
• What is the impact of process parameters on lactoferrin yield and purity when extracted from bovine milk? - Jaishree Ravindran
• Prevalence of supermarket own brand foods promoted as Australian-made - Claire E Pulker
• From seaweed to fritters: leveraging sensory and emotional appeal to support sustainable food consumption in Samoan youth - Mairead Rodgers
• Why is it harder for poorer children to eat healthily and how can local food interventions work better for poorer children? - Christina Vogel

Genomic and metabolic responses to food - Dr Aimee Dordevic

Lipid metabolism and chronic diseases - Prof Matt Watt

Ultra-Processed Foods and the Global Burden of Obesity and Noncommunicable Diseases - Prof Simon Barquera

Update on the revision of the Australian Dietary Guidelines - Professor Sarah McNaughton and Jennifer Savenake

Connecting with Country - John Jacky

Nutrient content of traditional foods of the Kullari region - John Jacky and Dr Ellie Dunlop

The seasons are the cornerstone of health - Dr Tia Whyman and John Jacky

Partnering with remote communities - John Jacky and Belinda Neo

• Health effects of A2 versus conventional milk: a systematic review and meta-analysis, with assessment of A1/A2 β-casein composition and dose - Rizliya Visvanathan
• Sustained Egg Consumption and the 18-Year Risk of All-cause Mortality: A Target Trial Emulation - Yohannes Adama Melaku
• The effects of a high fibre diet vs a lower carbohydrate, high unsaturated fat diet on endothelial function - Nina M Trinquet
• Provision of abdominal aortic calcification results and cardiovascular risk-reducing behaviours: an observational follow-up of the MODEL study - Elena M Mantegazza
• Joint temporal patterns of eating and 24-hour movement behaviours: associations with adiposity and blood pressure in Australian adults - Beshada R Jima

• Applying the Nova food processing classification to the 2023 Australian food composition database: a methodological framework - Priscila Machado
• Regulating food processing aids in Australia: implications for food matrix transformation and public health nutrition policy - Pam Dyson
• How well do international food composition databases and prediction models reflect direct chemical analysis of Australian foods? - Nicole M Simm
• Comparing the cost of ultra-processed and minimally processed dietary patterns for an Australian family of four - Anshia Tu
• A cross-sectional analysis of sociodemographic correlates of plant-based diet quality among Australian adolescents at age 17 - Brittney Elliott

• Planning for pregnancy, worrying about food: Food insecurity among women in the preconception period. - Amanda Dickson
• What makes a pregnancy nutrition resource culturally appropriate? Insights from African migrant women and healthcare professionals in Australia - Bolanle Olajide
• Co-designing culturally responsive nutrition care across the gestational diabetes prevention and care continuum: The CoDe-GDM study - Blessing Akombi-Inyang
• Protein and fibre quality shape gut microbial function in pregnancy: a longitudinal metagenomic study - Hannah O'Connor
• Maternal body mass index shifts between pregnancies: who gains, maintains or loses in Tasmania, 2010–2022 - Malith Kumarasinghe

• Blueberry co-consumption is associated with distinct postprandial multi-omics signatures following a high-fat, high-sugar meal - Faezeh Abaj
• Acute blueberry co-consumption dose-dependently lowers plasma stress-related metabolites following a high-fat, high-sugar meal in healthy men - Rafika Eviana
• Exploring Miracle Fruit as a Taste Modifier and Its Role in Food Liking and Dietary Quality among Overweight and Obese Adults: A Feasibility Trial - Getahun Mulaw
• Effects of dietary polyphenol exposure on circadian clock genes and metabolic signaling pathways. - Noha Sulaimani
• From enhanced quercetin bioavailability to dietary translation: evidence from human intervention studies - Lu Liu

• Effect of fruit and vegetable provisioning interventions during snack breaks on student's vegetable intake in primary schools: A rapid review - Astrid AM Poelman
• Growing knowledge: improving food literacy through a school garden programme - Sheila A Skeaff
• Food, nutrition and sustainability education in primary school classrooms: a transnational analysis of teacher perspectives from Australia, Sweden and the UK - Jessica V Kempler
• Early professional identity formation in nutrition and dietetics: Insights from first year students and implications for curriculum reform - Libby Swanepoel
• Updating the foundations of contemporary nutrition degrees: A scoping review to inform Australian nutrition science competency standards revision. - Katya Clark
• Program-level assessment reform should be underpinned by the purposes of assessment and contexts in which it occurs: Highlighting educators’ perspectives - Margaret Murray
• Building capable public health nutrition workforces: A global competency review   - Libby Swanepoel

• Macronutrient Balance and Cardiovascular Disease Progression: A Compositional Multi-State Analysis in the 30-year Danish MONICA Cohort - Conghui Yang
• Blood pressure partially mediates the protective association between onion consumption and type 2 diabetes - Daniel Liang-Dar Hwang
• Both the quantity and diversity of dietary (poly)phenol intake contribute to lower mortality risk in the Danish Diet, Cancer and Health Cohort - Benjamin Parmenter
• Screening as a Collider in Diet–Colorectal Cancer Association: Evidence from Simulation and UK Biobank - Yohannes Adama Melaku

• Customer-level factors associated with discretionary food and beverage purchasing in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community stores in remote Australia: a customer intercept survey of Healthy Stores 2020 - Sarah Dickie
• Screen behaviours are associated with discretionary food and beverage consumption at eating occasions in adults - Rebecca M Leech
• Framing food insecurity in Australia: actors’ perspectives and implications for policy and practice - Monica Venosa
• Predictors of food label use among Australians with type 2 diabetes or pre-diabetes - Farhang Djafari

• Is weight loss enough? Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists, nutritional status, metabolic health, and reproductive outcomes in women with obesity and polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome - Sabrina Trindade
• Barriers and enablers influencing dietetic practice in the management of Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome. - Anthony Villani
• Exploring the physiological factors relating to energy balance in women with polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome: A systematic review and meta-analysis - Kay Nguo
• Developing a Co-designed eLearning Module to Support Tailored Lifestyle Care and Type 2 Diabetes Risk Reduction in Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome. - Isabella Gange-Holloway

• Do genotypes and phenotypes shape how much people enjoy bitter foods? A cross-sectional study of Australian adults - Zinat Mohammadpour
• Metabolic Fate of 6’-Sialyllactose: a Human Milk Oligosaccharide - Bing Wang
• The effect of fermentation on the biochemical, microbial and nutritional characteristics of the Australian seaweed Ulva ohnoi - Mikaela Young
• Effects of green banana starch supplementation on diabetic conditions of gestating sows - Frank Dunshea

• Predictors, moderators and mediators of gastrointestinal symptom outcomes following FODMAP diet interventions in adults with irritable bowel syndrome: a scoping review - Jacqueline L Anderson
• High Intakes of Added Sugar and Alcohol Are Associated with Elevated Acute Appendicitis Risk in Australian Adults - Michael Ryoo
• A practical framework for future implementation of a starch- and sucrose-reduced diet using Australian national food composition data - Carolyn J English
• Milk matrix matters: strawberry-driven enrichment of beneficial gut microbiota differs between dairy milk and plant-based dairy milk alternatives - Anuruddhika U Rathnayake
• Baseline gut microbiome composition predicts cognitive response to anthocyanin-rich dietary interventions in older adults: An exploratory randomised controlled trial - Karen Charlton
• The effects of low FODMAP on the vaginal and gut microbiota in women with endometriosis may help stratify dietary response - Yenkai Lim