[The quantitative alimentary questionnaire technique used by the I.N.S.E.R.M. nutrition department (author's transl)].

The utilization, during a certain number of years, of quantitative alimentary questionnaire in epidemiologic studies, has allowed: to model a print allowing the interviewer to transcribe the food ingested into an average for each day by a single person, to reflect on the different methods capable of being adaptable to reach this aim and to index the rocks to keep out of, so that this method would be used with chances of reliability.