Table 3.

Experts evaluation of GloboDiet sections and response address

Section	Overall evaluationa	More specific suggestions	Response approach in GloboDiet
General information	Adequate, useful, applicable, comprehensive, easily understandable, complete, excellent, simple, concise and relevant	Additional: dwelling place, marital status, number of children, education, physical activity, breastfeeding status, employment status	Actually handled by additional questionnaire(s) (non-dietary data to be merged with dietary data)
		Adaptation: delete participant name, measure weight and height instead of self-reporting	Local interview training issue
		Ask age instead of birth date, non-consideration of sickness and travel days as special days, ask for diet-related diseases directly	These requests can be addressed in GloboDiet
Quick list	Easy, comprehensive, good, useful features, clear, appropriate, detail-focused, intuitive, interesting	Adaptation: ask for daily activities of the interviewee to capture food consumption occasions	Adaptation of food consumption occasions list and local training issue
Description of foods and recipes	Relevant aspects covered, detailed, comprehensive, clear	-	Adaptation of the foods and recipes lists
	Necessity to contextualize	Additional: sun drying, smoking, mortar and peddle pounding, stone grounding, sifting, gifts, home production	Study how to link to existing GloboDiet facets/descriptors
			Possibility to add new descriptors and facets.
		Adaptation: possibility to delete packaging, all the facets related to canned fruits and vegetables	Adaptation of the facets and descriptors databases to local situations
Quantification of foods and recipes	Satisfactory (see Fig. 2)	Adaptation: Clear distinction between urban and rural areas	Adaptation of the quantification methods to local settings
		Have pictures of local foods without fork and knife, local HHMs	Create local picture books with local HHMs, foods/recipes,
			Use local standard units
		SU (be sure about the cultivars), real foods, handful and soft food scoping	Quantification method to be linked to volume
		Food models, salted replicas,	Weight method
		Onsite weighing	New quantification approach to be defined.
		Shared plate	Study/validation of method “shared plate”.
Probing questions	Important, relevant	Additional: wild foods and fruits picking	Actually handled at the quick list step
			Training issue
Quality controls	Needed, important	-	Well-grounded in GloboDiet
Dietary supplements	Relevant, adapted, necessary, good, helpful, appropriate	Definition of dietary supplements is not clear in Africa	There is need to clearly define dietary supplements before inclusion in Globodiet databases (as food, dietary supplements, or both)
		Additional: “tonic” and “energy-booster” plant by-products

HHM household measure, SU standard unit

^aAs commented by the experts in the online questionnaire