**7.5 Food security and dietary adequacy**

The evaluation of a nation's ability to ensure its own food supply has expanded beyond the simple assessment of the quantity of food available to encompass other evaluations of economic access. On the other hand, the same level of focus has not been placed on evaluating the quality of diets. If the data from HCESs are collected correctly, it may be possible to estimate the quality of the diets of a whole population. Some of the data collected to help make CSIs may also tell us about the quality of people's diets. Most food security assessments do not use more severe measures of diet quality like 24-h dietary recall and food questionnaires because it takes a lot of time and money to collect and analyze these kinds of data.

Another component of food availability, that is, the embarrassment that comes along with acquiring food in methods glared upon by society, is noticeably inattentive from the metrics examined here, in spite of the fact that social unacceptability has been established as a shared domain of food insecurity across a wide variety of cultural contexts [38, 39]. In point of fact, a query investigating it was included in the early development stages of the HFIAS; however, it was removed from the completion of the measure due to the delicate nature of the subject matter and the trouble in obtaining precise reports [40]. Limited surveys inquire about food acquisition acceptability; hence insignificant data is available to examine this food security section.

Food safety is generally excluded from food security metrics despite growing issues about mycotoxin contamination, chemical pollutants, foodborne illness, and zoonotic disease [41].
