Hu G, Lu W, Soberman D, L’Abbé MR. Short- and long-term shifts in food purchasing behaviours and nutrition disparities in the USA during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Nat Hum Behav. 2026 Aug 14. doi: 10.1038/s41562-026-02547-9. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 42601478. View Online.
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Using artificial intelligence and computer vision to detect and monitor unhealthy child-directed food and beverage marketing: a data-driven study
Hu G, Gross O, Ziraldo E, Mulligan C, Soberman D, Dewan M, Lewis K, Nomani R, Lu A, L’Abbé MR. Using artificial intelligence and computer vision to detect and monitor unhealthy child-directed food and beverage marketing: a data-driven study. EClinicalMedicine. 2025 Sep 30;89:103549. doi: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2025.103549. PMID: 41079021; PMCID: PMC12513061. View Online.
Investigating reformulation in the Canadian food supply between 2017 and 2020 and its impact on food prices.
Ziraldo ER, Hu G, Khan A, L’Abbé MR. Investigating reformulation in the Canadian food supply between 2017 and 2020 and its impact on food prices. Public Health Nutr. 2024 Nov 22:1-27. doi: 10.1017/S136898002400226X. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39575545. View Online.
Accelerating the Classification of NOVA Food Processing Levels Using a Fine-Tuned Language Model: A Multi-Country Study
Hu G, Flexner N, Tiscornia MV, L’Abbé MR. Accelerating the Classification of NOVA Food Processing Levels Using a Fine-Tuned Language Model: A Multi-Country Study. Nutrients. 2023 Sep 27;15(19):4167. doi: 10.3390/nu15194167. PMID: 37836451; PMCID: PMC10574618. View Online.
Nutritional quality and price of plant-based dairy and meat analogs in the Canadian food supply system
Lee JJ, Srebot S, Ahmed M, Mulligan C, Hu G, L’Abbé MR. Nutritional quality and price of plant-based dairy and meat analogs in the Canadian food supply system. J Food Sci. 2023 Jul 17. doi: 10.1111/1750-3841.16691. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37458282. View Online.
Natural language processing and machine learning approaches for food categorization and nutrition quality prediction compared with traditional methods
Hu G, Ahmed M, L’Abbé MR. Natural language processing and machine learning approaches for food categorization and nutrition quality prediction compared with traditional methods. Am J Clin Nutr. 2023 Mar;117(3):553-563. doi: 10.1016/j.ajcnut.2022.11.022. Epub 2022 Dec 23. PMID: 36872019. View Online.