Deconstruction experiments like those done with the CHORIBar are valuable for understanding how complex diets like the Mediterranean diet impact health markers such as HDL.

“the nice thing about the bar is you can leave out the vitamin group does that does the bar still work to HDL in two weeks and then you can leave out the fiber group does the bar still and and Joyce has been doing these experiments and it's complicated there more than one thing and you can pin it down and you couldn't do that in epidemiology in a Mediterranean diet”