“…The ELHRD prompted considerable scientific debate since its publication and has been compared to national Food-Based Dietary Guidelines (FBDGs) in USA ( Blackstone and Conrad, 2020 ) and Australia ( Hendrie et al, 2022 ), as well as current diets in India ( Sharma et al, 2020 ), Spain ( Cambeses-Franco et al, 2022 ), and Japan ( Nomura et al, 2023 ). Furthermore, several scores to evaluate adherence were elaborated and validated or used to assess the association with nutritional adequacy, indicators of environmental impact or risk of chronic diseases ( Ali et al, 2022 ; Cacau et al, 2021 , 2022 ; Cacau and Marchioni, 2022 ; Campirano et al, 2023 ; Colizzi et al, 2023 ; Frank et al, 2024 ; Hanley-Cook et al, 2021 ; Kesse-Guyot et al, 2021 ; Knuppel et al, 2019 ; López et al, 2023 ; Marchioni et al, 2022 ; Montejano Vallejo et al, 2022 ; Stubbendorff et al, 2022 ; Trijsburg et al, 2021 ). However, besides the alignment of the current diets or national FBDGs, the report of the Commission did not indicate a standardized methodology to perform the adaptation to the different food contexts ( Blackstone and Conrad, 2020 ).…”