García Gómez, BelénRivas Casais, AliciaLorences Touzón, RaquelPiedrafita Paez, NicolasMuñoz Ferreiro, NievesVázquez Odériz, María LourdesRomero Rodríguez, María de los Ángeles2022-08-092022-08-092022Journal of Functional Foods 91 (2022) 105015http://hdl.handle.net/10347/29042The Atlantic Diet (AD) is the traditional diet in Galicia (NW-Spain) and northern Portugal. A thirteen-item questionnaire was developed to assess the degree of adherence to the AD pattern of Galician senior population. Another questionnaire was designed to determine the degree of knowledge about AD. The adherence to the AD was medium–high. The consumption of nuts, wine, and fish and seafood were the AD characteristics complied with to a lesser extent by senior population. Only 15.4% of the respondents claimed to eat at least 4 servings / week of nuts, only 24.5% consumed 1 (females) or 2 (males) glasses of wine / day and only 35.0% consumed more than 3 servings / week of fish and seafood. On the opposite side was the daily consumption of dairy products and olive oil by more than 90.0% of them. The consumption of nuts and game meat were the least well-known AD characteristicseng© 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by- nc-nd/4.0/)Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacionalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Dietary patternElderlyTraditional dietAtlantic DietGalician Dietjournal article10.1016/j.jff.2022.1050151756-4646open access