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

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

• 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 - Rachel Mackey
• 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

• The effect of omega-3 long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids on aggressive behavior in adult male prisoners: Omega Man - a multi-centre, double blind, randomised placebo-controlled trial - Barbara J. Meyer
• 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
• Big Data, Nutrition, and Mental Health: Implications for Artificial Intelligence Interventions - Kingsley A Kalu

• 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
• Omega-3 Index increased in the first 4 weeks of docosahexaenoic acid supplementation, and thereafter appears to plateau, irrespective of diet groups; vegan/vegetarian or non-restrictive   - Barbara J. Meyer

• Nutrition policy in Australia over the last five decades - Amanda Lee
• Changing dietary patterns of Australians - Sarah McNaughton
• 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

• 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

• Feeding the Gut–Brain Axis: Linking Microbiota and Gut Function - Jessica Biesiekierski
• Food factors affecting dynamics of gut microbial fermentation - Mike Gidley

• Does the rise in use of GLP-1 agonist medication make nutrition support redundant? - Clare Collins
• Gather + Grow: A systems approach to addressing food insecurity in Far North Queensland - Robyn Littlewood
• 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