%0 Journal Article %T Design and characterization of dietary assessment in the German National Cohort %J - %D 2019 %R https://doi.org/10.1038/s41430-018-0383-8 %X The aim of the study was to describe a novel dietary assessment strategy based on two instruments complemented by information from an external population applied to estimate usual food intake in the large-scale multicenter German National Cohort (GNC). As proof of concept, we applied the assessment strategy to data from a pretest study (2012¨C2013) to assess the feasibility of the novel assessment strategy %U https://www.nature.com/articles/s41430-018-0383-8