AMPM - Information Collected

The AMPM collects a list of all foods and beverages consumed in a 24-hour period. Information captured by AMPM includes:

• For each food... 
      - Description of food
      - Additions to the food (for example, milk on cereal or cream in coffee)
      - Combination code that identifies foods eaten together
        (such as milk added to cereal)
      - Amount of food consumed
      - Time eaten
      - Name of eating occasion
      - Where obtained
      - Eaten at home or not
   
• Water consumption - bottled and tap water
   
• Use of salt in preparing foods and at the table
   
• Whether the amount of food consumed on the recall day was much more than usual, usual, or much less than usual
   
• Currently on a diet to lose weight or some other health-related reason

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