Global Dietary and Herbal Supplement Use during COVID-19—A Scoping Review

DOI record: { "DOI": "10.3390/nu15030771", "ISSN": [ "2072-6643" ], "URL": "http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu15030771", "abstract": "<jats:p>During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the lack of cure and the intensity of the global spread raised a common awareness of health. The aim of this scoping review is to summarize dietary supplement use globally during first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. A systematic search was conducted in December 2021 following PRISMA guidelines. PubMed, ERIC, and Scopus databases were searched, and 956 results were screened for eligibility. Fourteen cross-sectional studies from 11 countries and 3 continents were examined. All studies were large population surveys investigating healthy eating and supplement use during COVID-19. Vitamin C, vitamin D, zinc and multivitamins were the most widely reported, as well as natural/herbal products such as ginger and honey. The most common reason cited for supplements use was to strengthen immune system and to prevent infection of COVID-19. These studies reported that populations are relying on healthcare providers, family, friends, and social media to learn about supplement use. Future studies on the treatment of COVID-19 should include more evidence for supplement use.</jats:p>", "alternative-id": [ "nu15030771" ], "author": [ { "affiliation": [ { "name": "Department of Food Science, Nutrition and Health Promotion, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS 39762, USA" } ], "family": "Arora", "given": "Ishaan", "sequence": "first" }, { "affiliation": [ { "name": "Department of Food Science, Nutrition and Health Promotion, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS 39762, USA" } ], "family": "White", "given": "Shecoya", "sequence": "additional" }, { "affiliation": [ { "name": "Department of Food Science, Nutrition and Health Promotion, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS 39762, USA" } ], "family": "Mathews", "given": "Rahel", "sequence": "additional" } ], "container-title": "Nutrients", "container-title-short": "Nutrients", "content-domain": { "crossmark-restriction": false, "domain": [] }, "created": { "date-parts": [ [ 2023, 2, 3 ] ], "date-time": "2023-02-03T08:36:57Z", "timestamp": 1675413417000 }, "deposited": { "date-parts": [ [ 2023, 2, 3 ] ], "date-time": "2023-02-03T09:27:01Z", "timestamp": 1675416421000 }, "funder": [ { "award": [ "609330" ], "name": "National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture" } ], "indexed": { "date-parts": [ [ 2023, 2, 4 ] ], "date-time": "2023-02-04T05:29:49Z", "timestamp": 1675488589803 }, "is-referenced-by-count": 0, "issue": "3", "issued": { "date-parts": [ [ 2023, 2, 2 ] ] }, "journal-issue": { "issue": "3", "published-online": { "date-parts": [ [ 2023, 2 ] ] } }, "language": "en", "license": [ { "URL": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "content-version": "vor", "delay-in-days": 0, "start": { "date-parts": [ [ 2023, 2, 2 ] ], "date-time": "2023-02-02T00:00:00Z", "timestamp": 1675296000000 } } ], "link": [ { "URL": "https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/15/3/771/pdf", "content-type": "unspecified", "content-version": "vor", "intended-application": "similarity-checking" } ], "member": "1968", "original-title": [], "page": "771", "prefix": "10.3390", "published": { "date-parts": [ [ 2023, 2, 2 ] ] }, "published-online": { "date-parts": [ [ 2023, 2, 2 ] ] }, "publisher": "MDPI AG", "reference": [ { "key": "ref_1", "unstructured": "Office of Dietary Supplements (2022, April 12). 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