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Food insecurity amongst Universal Credit claimants: the Benefits and Nutrition Study (BEANS), a cross-sectional online study (2025)
Journal Article
Thomas, M., Rose, P., Coneyworth, L., Harvey, J., Goulding, J., Stone, J., Padley, M., O’Reilly, P., & Welham, S. (in press). Food insecurity amongst Universal Credit claimants: the Benefits and Nutrition Study (BEANS), a cross-sectional online study. European Journal of Nutrition,

Purpose
Increasing food insecurity (FIS) in the UK presents a major challenge to public health. Universal Credit (UC) claimants are disproportionately impacted by FIS but research on socio-demographic factors and consequent nutritional security is... Read More about Food insecurity amongst Universal Credit claimants: the Benefits and Nutrition Study (BEANS), a cross-sectional online study.

Mineral Supplements in Aging (2024)
Book Chapter
Welham, S., Rose, P., Coneyworth, L., Avery, A., & Kirk, C. (2024). Mineral Supplements in Aging. In V. I. Korolchuk, & J. R. Harris (Eds.), Biochemistry and Cell Biology of Ageing: Part V, Anti-ageing Interventions (269-306). Springer Nature

With advancing age, achievement of dietary adequacy for all nutrients is increasingly difficult and this is particularly so for minerals. Various factors impede mineral acquisition and absorption including reduced appetite, depressed gastric acid pro... Read More about Mineral Supplements in Aging.

Predicting Healthy Start Scheme Uptake using Deprivation and Food Insecurity Measures (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Makokoro, K., Long, G., Harvey, J., Smith, A., Welham, S., Mansilla, R., Lukinova, E., & Goulding, J. (2024, May). Predicting Healthy Start Scheme Uptake using Deprivation and Food Insecurity Measures. Presented at 2nd Digital Footprints Conference: Linking Digital Data for Social Impact, Bristol, UK

Evaluation of food allergen information, labelling and unintended food allergen presence in imported prepacked foods and drinks purchased online in the UK (2024)
Journal Article
James, C. A., Welham, S., & Rose, P. (2024). Evaluation of food allergen information, labelling and unintended food allergen presence in imported prepacked foods and drinks purchased online in the UK. Food Control, 162, Article 110462. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodcont.2024.110462

Consumers have wide access to global food and drink products online and in store that require food allergen information and labelling. Frequent food and drink product recalls occur UK and worldwide due to incorrect labelling of food allergens and the... Read More about Evaluation of food allergen information, labelling and unintended food allergen presence in imported prepacked foods and drinks purchased online in the UK.

Salivary iodide status as a measure of whole body iodine homeostasis? (2024)
Journal Article
Eenizan Alsaeedi, E., Rose, P., & Welham, S. J. (2024). Salivary iodide status as a measure of whole body iodine homeostasis?. British Journal of Nutrition, 131(10), 1740-1753. https://doi.org/10.1017/S000711452400031X


Iodine is a trace element required to produce the thyroid hormones, which are critical for development, growth and metabolism. To ensure appropriate population iodine nutrition, convenient and accurate methods of monitoring are necessary. Current m... Read More about Salivary iodide status as a measure of whole body iodine homeostasis?.

Detecting iodine deficiency risks from dietary transitions using shopping data (2024)
Journal Article
Mansilla, R., Long, G., Welham, S., Harvey, J., Lukinova, E., Nica-Avram, G., Smith, G., Salt, D., Smith, A., & Goulding, J. (2024). Detecting iodine deficiency risks from dietary transitions using shopping data. Scientific Reports, 14(1), Article 1017. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-50180-7

Plant-based product replacements are gaining popularity. However, the long-term health implications remain poorly understood, and available methods, though accurate, are expensive and burdensome, impeding the study of sufficiently large cohorts. To i... Read More about Detecting iodine deficiency risks from dietary transitions using shopping data.

Who consumes anthocyanins and anthocyanidins? Mining national retail data to reveal the influence of socioeconomic deprivation and seasonality on polyphenol dietary intake (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Harvey, J., Long, G., Welham, S., Mansilla, R., Rose, P., Thomas, M., Milligan, G., Dolan, E., Parkes, J., Makokoro, K., & Goulding, J. (2023, December). Who consumes anthocyanins and anthocyanidins? Mining national retail data to reveal the influence of socioeconomic deprivation and seasonality on polyphenol dietary intake. Presented at 2023 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData), Sorrento, Itlay

Anthocyanins are a class of polyphenols that have received widespread recent attention due to their potential health benefits. However, estimating the dietary intake of anthocyanins at a population level is a challenging task, due to the difficulty o... Read More about Who consumes anthocyanins and anthocyanidins? Mining national retail data to reveal the influence of socioeconomic deprivation and seasonality on polyphenol dietary intake.

Adoption of a Short-Term (4-Week) Vegan Diet as Part of ‘Veganuary’ Significantly Reduces Saturated Fatty Acid (SFA), Cholesterol, B12, and Iodine Intake in Omnivorous Individuals—An Observational Study (2023)
Journal Article
Eveleigh, E., Coneyworth, L., Craigon, J., & Welham, S. (2023). Adoption of a Short-Term (4-Week) Vegan Diet as Part of ‘Veganuary’ Significantly Reduces Saturated Fatty Acid (SFA), Cholesterol, B12, and Iodine Intake in Omnivorous Individuals—An Observational Study. Nutrients, 15(23), Article 4967. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu15234967

Global veganism campaigns like ‘Veganuary’ have gained popularity. We conducted an observational study to assess the impact of a 4-week vegan diet during ‘Veganuary’ on nutrient intake, status, knowledge, and motivations for veganism. Data were colle... Read More about Adoption of a Short-Term (4-Week) Vegan Diet as Part of ‘Veganuary’ Significantly Reduces Saturated Fatty Acid (SFA), Cholesterol, B12, and Iodine Intake in Omnivorous Individuals—An Observational Study.