Ajinomoto Co., Inc. (President and CEO: Shigeo Nakamura; Headquarters: Chuo-ku, Tokyo) has advanced its proprietary nutritional profiling system, "ANPS (The Ajinomoto Group Nutrient Profiling System)," which scientifically evaluates nutritional value, through joint research with the University of Tokyo's Department of Nutritional Epidemiology and Behavioral Nutrition, in which the company invests. The company has newly developed "ANPS-Day," a novel method for evaluating the nutritional quality of an entire day's diet, and verified its validity using biomarkers from consumers. The results revealed an association between the ANPS-Day score and the urinary sodium-to-potassium ratio (Na/K ratio), a biomarker for cardiovascular disease risk. These research findings have been published in the international academic journal "Nutrients." In recent years, as interest grows in government and corporate initiatives for nutritional improvement worldwide, the development and implementation of Nutrient Profiling Systems (NPS) are progressing. These systems scientifically evaluate the nutritional components in foods based on scientific evidence and express the nutritional quality of those foods in an easily understandable manner. The Ajinomoto Group has developed its own NPS, ANPS, and has progressively expanded its scope of application to products (ANPS-Product), individual dishes (ANPS-Dish), and single meals (ANPS-Meal). While various studies have been conducted on the scientific validity of these evaluation methods, they have primarily focused on analyses using existing recipe information and have not yet involved verification using actual consumer biomarkers. Through joint research with the University of Tokyo, Ajinomoto has further advanced ANPS and newly developed "ANPS-Day" to evaluate the nutritional quality of an entire day's diet. The score used in this method (hereinafter referred to as the ANPS-Day score) leverages insights from ANPS-Dish and ANPS-Meal developed previo