Use of Metabolomics in Improving Assessment of Dietary Intake

In the era of precision medicine, it is no surprise that there is an emerging interest in personalizing one’s diet based on their genetic make-up.  This concept called, “precision nutrition,” refers to the application of -omics techniques such as genomics and metabolomics, to achieve better prevention or treatment of disease to optimize nutrition.

The January 2017 Clinical Chemistry special issue on obesity includes a review article that summarizes the current and future roles of nutritional metabolomics.