Table 1.

Eligibility criteria for the present rapid review of social media analytics in nutrition research, current usage in investigation of dietary behaviours

Included studies	Excluded studies
1. Original full access research published from 1 January 2014 to 29 February 2020.	1. Abstracts, reviews, conference proceedings unless published as full papers, commentaries, conference posters and unpublished thesis.
2. English language studies.	2. Non-English language studies.
3. Social media data on individual dietary behaviours in general population health.	3. Social media data with acute or chronic diseases or with campaigns, policy or advertising.
4. Public domain, user-generated data from third-party social media sites.	4. Data from mhealth, IOT, platforms specifically health-targeted/hosted/moderated including apps, blogs and websites or obtained by recruiting participants.
5. Studies that used social media data as above and included at least one description of SMA steps.	5. Studies that used social media data as above without any description of any of the SMA steps.

IOT, Internet of Things.