How many studies support Mediterranean Diet?

The Mediterranean diet is among the most rigorously studied dietary patterns in nutrition science, anchored by the PREDIMED randomized controlled trial, which found reduced cardiovascular events in high-risk adults, alongside decades of large cohort studies (including the influential Greek EPIC cohort) linking adherence to lower mortality. That's backed by 9 published studies in Vitaebase's database, the most recent from 2026 -- a fairly substantial body of research for a single topic.