Wednesday, 3rd December 49th Nutrition Society of Australia Annual Scientific Meeting 2025

Vicki Flood, NSA President

Vini Cruzat, Chair of Local Organising Committee

Perspectives from experienced researchers followed by a panel discussion

• Swings and roundabouts in dietary carbohydrates - Jennie Brand-Miller
• Micronutrient issues that remain unresolved: programmes and research in the Asia-Pacific and beyond - Ian Darnton-Hill
• Contributions of Animal Nutrition to Nutrition Science - Wayne Bryden

• Biomarker validation of an updated Australian food frequency questionnaire to measure long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids - Sarah E. McPhan
• Are Diet Apps Accurate Enough for Type 1 Diabetes? Assessing the Accuracy of Commercial Nutrition Apps for Carbohydrate Estimation - Naufal Nurdin
• Reproducibility and relative validity of a food frequency questionnaire for Australian women of childbearing age: A pilot validation study - Sasha Fenton
• Nitr-Navigator: A global open-access platform for investigating health impacts of dietary nitrate and nitrite exposure - Marc Sim

• Effects of peanut butter supplementation on older adults’ physical and cognitive function: A 6-month randomised, controlled trial - Sze-Yen Tan
• Enhancing aged care nutrition: insights from food service staff using the Theoretical Domains Framework - Annalise Macriyiannis
• Association of ultra-processed food intake with cognitive performance: a cross-sectional analysis of middle-aged and older Australian adults - Barbara Cardoso
• Staff training to implement dietary improvements to reduce fracture risk in aged care residents - Sandra Iuliano

• Appendicectomy patients report a lower adherence to the Mediterranean Diet than participants without acute appendicitis history in South-East Queensland - Michael Ryoo
• A scoping review of methods used to investigate relationships between dietary intake and the gastrointestinal microbiome - Nicole M Simm
• Microbial Diversity and Composition Changes in a Randomised Crossover Feeding Trial Comparing the Healthy Australian Diet and Typical Australian Diet - Jordan Stanford
• Dietary treatment for irritable bowel syndrome: a pathway to disordered eating? - Caroline J Tuck
• Sociodemographic and dietary characteristics of Australian pregnant women interested in participating in gut microbiome research - Bree Whiteoak

• Nut intake and cognition in American adults with and without stroke - Sasan Amanat
• Shifting the balance: animal-to-plant protein ratio and cardiometabolic risk   - Liana Pace
• Mind the methods: Uncovering quantitative shortcomings in ultra-processed food research - Yohannes Melaku
• A pilot randomized control trial evaluating the feasibility of a 12-week Mediterranean Diet intervention without caloric restriction in women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome - Anthony Villani
• Dietary fibre intake and risk of stomach cancer: a pooled analysis of 21 prospective cohort studies - Thi Thu Huyen Nguyen

• Ultra-processed food narratives in social media forum posts: a content analysis of Reddit threads - Emily Denniss
• Does the Australian Eating Survey food frequency questionnaire estimate nutrient intake accurately in South Asians living in Australia? A comparative validity study - Purva Gulyani
• Co-designing digital healthy eating tools for young adults: integrating evidence, consumer insights and practical preferences - Nikita Muller
• Covid lockdown and 'covid-safe' periods of the COVID-19 pandemic in Mauritius: changes between dietary diversity, food insecurity, and attitude statements  - Katherine E Markwell
• Bytes to Bites: A Scoping Review of Digital Sources of Healthy Eating Knowledge for Young Adults (18-24 years) - Nhee Tran

• Dietary intake in aged care residents remains unchanged despite a Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety - Sandra Iuliano
• Care staff training to improve the mealtime experience and food intake in aged care residents. - Shannon Turnbull

• Enhancing the functional potential of black sorghum through germination: Polyphenol profile, antioxidant activity, and nutritional implications - Nidhish Francis
• Structural analysis of food literacy measures for adults: a scoping review - Manoja Gamage
• Derivation of an Australian amino acid database from international nutrient data - Nicole M Simm
• Role of fermentation on the dietary fibre and non-starch polysaccharides contents of vegetables - Jenani Sutharsan

• Is a personalised medical nutrition therapy intervention and medically tailored food packages feasible, acceptable, and effective in improving diet quality in people with diabetes-related foot ulcers? - Hailey Donnelly
• Who Eats Legumes and Why? Insights into Australian Dietary Choices and Attitudes - Evangeline Mantzioris
• Supplementation of New Zealand hemp seed protein improves arterial health in adults with increased cardiovascular risk - Ben DG Wright

• Food and nutrition for better health and wellbeing; co-consultation focus groups to develop culinary nutrition learning modules for Australian teachers.   - Clare E Collins
• Feasibility of the Healthy Weight for Life^TM + Medical Nutrition Therapy Randomised Controlled Trial - Clare E Collins
• Plasma metabolomic signatures show improvements in diet quality in response to medical nutrition therapy in adults at an elevated-cardiovascular disease risk - Clare E Collins
• Fatherhood and Food Insecurity: Narratives from the Antenatal Period - Amanda Dickson
• Can miracle fruit enhance the intake of a hypo-palatable mixed salad? A pilot quasi-experimental study in healthy-weight and overweight/obese adults. - Shashya Diyapaththugama
• The effect of continued folic acid supplementation on post-natal depression: protocol for a randomised controlled trial.  - Olivia Gray
• High-Fat Diet-Induced Alterations in Redox Balance and Leptin Regulation in in vivo Models: A systematic review and meta-analysis - Elaheh Heshmati
• Promoting sustainability in hospital foodservice: strategies implemented at a staff restaurant in central Taiwan - Yun-Hsuan Huang
• Young Australian adults have high sustainable food literacy, but low adherence to healthy and sustainable diets - Bill T Lam
• Refreshing the Australian National Nutrition Science Competencies - Tanya Lawlis
• Meat Attachment and the Protein Transition: The Mediating Role of Food Liking in Dietary Shifts - Gie Liem
• Impact of homestead gardening on dietary diversity in Tongan adults - Emily Mitchell
• What’s for dinner? A digital food literacy tool to support heart-healthy eating. - Maria Packard
• A case study of changes in the healthiness, equity, and environmental sustainability of an Australian university food environment: Findings from two audits using the Uni-Food Tool (2022–2025) - Rajshri Roy
• Associations between dietary intake and subclinical cardiovascular risk markers in university students - Julia Ruiz
• Combined Krill Oil and Dexamethasone Treatment Restored Gut Microbial Homeostasis in a Chronic Colitis Mouse Model - Xiao Su
• Disease Knowledge and Lifestyle Behaviours Among Australians with Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease - Ayesha Sualeheen
• Connecting past and present to inform the future of food and nutrition science: a bibliographic database for Australia and surrounds - Beverley Wood
• Developing, inspiring and connecting emerging leaders in nutrition: 2025 Oceanic Nutrition Leadership Platform (ONLP) course summary - Thomas P Wycherley

Meet our Meet our members and Registered Nutritionists who are sharing evidence-based nutrition with the wider community. Authors will be on the NSA stand during the following times:

• Dr Emma Beckett, author of You Are More Than What You Eat , on Wednesday from 1.15 to 1.45pm

• Dr Sue Radd, author of Food as Medicine: Cooking for Your Best Health and Food as Medicine: Cooking to Prevent and Treat Diabetes, on Thursday from 10.30 to 11.00am

• Dr Sarah Gray author of It’s Not You, It’s Perimenopause , on Thursday from 12.45 to 1.15pm

This session celebrates members who are translating nutrition science into accessible and inspiring books for the public. Hear their stories, discover their motivation for writing.

• Changing dietary patterns of Australians - Sarah McNaughton
• Nutrition policy in Australia over the last five decades - Amanda Lee
• State of the Heart 2025: National Insights into Australians’ Food Purchasing, Dietary Behaviours and Barriers to Healthy Eating - Nikita Muller
• From Advocacy to Action: a critical review of civil society organisation efforts to realise a public health nutrition strategy for Australia - Helen A Vidgen

• Is colon health promoted by newly discovered gut microbial biosynthesis of vitamin D2? - David R Fraser
• Vitamin K and Osteocalcin: An Enigma Explored - Jazmine Skinner
• Neurodevelopmental benefits of combined human milk oligosaccharides and lactoferrin supplementation: evidence from in vivo magnetic resonance spectroscopy based metabolic profiling in piglets - Md Mahmudul Amin
• Vitamin D biofortification of shelf-stable salmon (Salmo salar) products using pulsed ultraviolet light - Eleanor Dunlop

• Food factors affecting dynamics of gut microbial fermentation - Mike Gidley
• Feeding the Gut–Brain Axis: Linking Microbiota and Gut Function - Jessica Biesiekierski
• Navigating the Microbial Landscape to Conquer Crohn’s disease - Mark Morrison

• Gather + Grow: A systems approach to addressing food insecurity in Far North Queensland - Robyn Littlewood
• Does the rise in use of GLP-1 agonist medication make nutrition support redundant? - Clare Collins
• Objective measures and lived experiences of the neighbourhood food environment: A mixed-methods study of children and families living in Rotterdam - Holly A Harris
• Does adiposity mediate the relationship between diet quality and pain? - Susan J Ward

Vicki Flood 

Tom Wycherley