Swiss Eating Quiz
The Swiss Eating Quiz (SEQ) is a online tool that shows how well your diet aligns with the Swiss dietary guidelines. Users receive instant, personalised feedback along with practical tips to improve the quality of their eating habits.
Factsheet
- Schools involved School of Health Professions
- Institute(s) Nutrition and Dietetics
- Funding organisation Others
- Duration (planned) 01.10.2025 - 31.12.2027
- Head of project Prof. Dr. Tamara Bucher
Situation
Poor diet negatively impacts the environment, contributes to disease and causes significant costs to the health care system. The Swiss Eating Quiz (SEQ), which will be a brief and easy to use online diet quality assessment tool, designed to provide individuals with feedback on how their usual dietary intake aligns with the new Swiss dietary recommendations and its impact on the environment. The SEQ will also provide individuals of the public with individualised practical recommendations on how to improve the quality and sustainability of their diet.
Course of action
The development of the tool will use a co-design process with users and be based on the existing validated Swiss food frequency questionnaire (eFFQ), as well as the methodologies previously used to create the Australian Healthy Eating Quiz (HEQ), which is an established evidence-based tool used by Australian health practitioners since over 10 years. The project brings together an interdisciplinary team with expertise in public health, dietetics, nutrition behaviour, sustainability assessment and IT, and engages key stakeholders to leverage reach. 3 Work packages: WP 1 Ethics, legal and technical preparations. WP 2 Generation of the SEQ and validation against food intake and established diet quality measures WP 3 Co-design of the SEQ platform and user feedback formats
Looking ahead
Expected Outcomes: The SEQ will provide automated personalized user feedback on improving diet and reducing environmental impact to interested Swiss consumers. The SEQ platform is further expected to serve as a time and cost-saving diagnostic tool for health professionals and a source of information on Swiss dietary behaviour and food trends.
