Development and validation of a Brief Diet Quality Assessment Tool in the French-speaking adults from Quebec

Table 1 Alternative Healthy Eating Index (AHEI)-2010 scoring method

Components	Criteria for minimum score (0)	Criteria for maximum score (10)
Vegetables, servings/day	0	≥5
Fruit, servings/day	0	≥4
Whole grains, g/day	0
Women		75 (approximately 5 servings/day)
Men		90 (approximately 6 servings/day)
Sugar-sweetened beverages and fruit juice, servings/day	≥1	0
Nuts and legumes, servings/day	0	≥1
Red/processed meat, servings/day	≥1.5	0
Trans fat, % energy	≥4	≤0.5
Long chain (n-3) fats (EPA + DHA), mg/day	0	250
PUFA, % energy	≤2	≥10
Sodium, mg/day	Highest decile	Lowest decile
Alcohol, drinks/day^a
Women	≥2.5	0.5–1.5
Men	≥3.5	0.5–2.0
Total	0	110

^aIn the design of the AHEI, authors assigned the highest score to moderate, and the lowest score to heavy, alcohol consumers. The non-drinkers received a score of 2.5. One drink is 4 oz. of wine, 12 oz. of beer, or 1.5 oz. of liquor (1 oz. = 28.35 g)
Adapted from Chiuve et al. (2012) [4]

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