scholarly journals Development of an Unified Food Composition Database for the European Project “Stance4Health”

Nutrients ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 4206
Author(s):  
Daniel Hinojosa-Nogueira ◽  
Sergio Pérez-Burillo ◽  
Beatriz Navajas-Porras ◽  
Bartolomé Ortiz-Viso ◽  
Silvia Pastoriza de la Cueva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bioactive Compounds ◽  
Missing Values ◽  
Control Method ◽  
Food Composition ◽  
Nutrition Intervention ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
European Project ◽  
Critical Control Points ◽  
Food Composition Tables ◽  
Nutrition Service

The European Commission funded project Stance4Health (S4H) aims to develop a complete personalised nutrition service. In order to succeed, sources of information on nutritional composition and other characteristics of foods need to be as comprehensive as possible. Food composition tables or databases (FCT/FCDB) are the most commonly used tools for this purpose. The aim of this study is to describe the harmonisation efforts carried out to obtain the Stance4Health FCDB. A total of 10 FCT/FCDB were selected from different countries and organizations. Data were classified using FoodEx2 and INFOODS tagnames to harmonise the information. Hazard analysis and critical control points analysis was applied as the quality control method. Data were processed by spreadsheets and MySQL. S4H’s FCDB is composed of 880 elements, including nutrients and bioactive compounds. A total of 2648 unified foods were used to complete the missing values of the national FCDB used. Recipes and dishes were estimated following EuroFIR standards via linked tables. S4H’s FCDB will be part of the smartphone app developed in the framework of the Stance4Health European project, which will be used in different personalized nutrition intervention studies. S4H FCDB has great perspectives, being one of the most complete in terms of number of harmonized foods, nutrients and bioactive compounds included.

scholarly journals Evaluation of mobile applications related to nutrition

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vitória Negri Braz ◽  
Maria Helena Baena de Moraes Lopes
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Mobile Apps ◽  
Food Composition ◽  
National Study ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Food Energy ◽  
Food Composition Table ◽  
Food Composition Tables ◽  
Macro And Micronutrients ◽  
Composition Table

AbstractObjectiveTo verify the reliability of information, the sources of information used and the user opinions of the free mobile applications (apps) with nutritional information available in Brazil.DesignDescriptive, cross-sectional study.SettingWe evaluated the content about nutrition of free apps available on the App Store of iPhone 5S with software iOS 8.4.1 and on the Play Store of the Android platform, version 2.3.6. For this, we compared the nutrition information provided by the app with (i) the Brazilian Food Composition Table (TACO), of 2011; (ii) food composition table: support for nutritional decision, of 2002; and (iii) the National Study of Family Expenditure: food composition tables, of 1999. The evaluation included the description and quantity of macro- and micronutrients in foods. In addition, we evaluated the trustworthiness of information about food energy values and analysed the comments and ratings made by users.SubjectsMobile apps related to nutrition.ResultsWe assessed sixteen apps for mobile devices. Considering the foods selected (a basic Brazilian food basket for the month of August 2015), the apps presented partially adequate or inadequate information about food composition (macro- and micronutrients). The adequacy of the food energy values ranged from 0 to 57·1 %. Despite this, the apps received positive ratings by users.ConclusionsThe mobile apps about nutrition currently available and evaluated in the present study in Brazil are not useful for nutritional guidance because most of them are not based on reliable sources of information.

Missing Values in European Food Composition Tables and Nutrient Data Bases: Preliminary results of a survey

1988 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-34
Author(s):  
B. Meyer ◽  
H.J. C. Van Oosten-Van Der Goes ◽  
W. A. Van Staveren ◽  
C. E. West
Keyword(s):  
Missing Values ◽  
Food Composition ◽  
Data Bases ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
Food Composition Tables ◽  
Nutrient Data

scholarly journals Using national dietary data to measure dietary changes

2002 ◽  
Vol 5 (6a) ◽  
pp. 985-989 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine M Champagne ◽  
Margaret L Bogle ◽  
William H Karge
Keyword(s):  
Mississippi Delta ◽  
Vegetable Consumption ◽  
Food Composition ◽  
Nutrition Intervention ◽  
Distributed Data ◽  
Dietary Recommendations ◽  
Food Composition Tables ◽  
Nutrition Research ◽  
Research Task ◽  
Dietary Data

AbstractObjective:To demonstrate that dietary datasets from the Continuing Survey of Food Intakes by Individuals, a US population survey, allow comparisons with national data and provide food composition datasets that can be used to generate similar dietary data.Design:Two studies are described: the Lower Mississippi Delta Nutrition Intervention Research Initiative (Delta NIRI), which used a 24-hour recall, and a Department of Defense Military Nutrition Research Task, which used 3-day dietary records. Both studies used the same food composition tables.Setting:Rural Lower Mississippi Delta and an Army post.Subjects:Four hundred and nine residents (adults and children) from the rural Delta region of Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi, and 74 career soldiers from the Sergeants Major Academy, Fort Bliss, Texas.Results:The Delta NIRI study found that fruit and vegetable consumption for these rural residents was lower than that found nationally. Additionally, the quality of vegetable servings is of concern since a large percentage came from french fries and potato chips. In the Sergeants Major Academy study, the national survey food composition tables allowed for easy analysis of intake data and comparisons with dietary recommendations.Conclusions:Strategies similar to those used for the Delta NIRI and Military Nutrition Research Task can be used widely, allowing comparisons of ‘defined populations’ with nationally distributed data. Additionally, measurement of dietary change is more efficient when the same protocol is used subsequently to collect more data, a method similar to that used by the US Department of Agriculture to describe food consumption patterns from one survey to another.

European Food Composition Tables in Translation

1987 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lenore Arab ◽  
Marion Wittler ◽  
Gotthard Schettler
Keyword(s):  
Food Composition ◽  
Food Composition Tables

scholarly journals Evaluation of the food composition tables: Beyond the divergence of intakes

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabuktagin Rahman ◽  
Avonti Basak Tukun ◽  
Santhia Ireen ◽  
Nazma Shaheen
Keyword(s):  
Food Composition ◽  
Food Composition Tables

USING COLLABORATIVE FILTERING FOR DEALING WITH MISSING VALUES IN NUCLEAR SAFEGUARDS EVALUATION

2010 ◽  
Vol 18 (04) ◽  
pp. 431-449 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROSA M. RODRÍGUEZ ◽  
LUIS MARTÍNEZ ◽  
DA RUAN ◽  
JUN LIU
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Filtering ◽  
Missing Values ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Nuclear Safeguards ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Energy Agency ◽  
Trust Measure ◽  
Many Sources ◽  
Linguistic Approach ◽  
Fuzzy Linguistic

Nuclear safeguards evaluation aims to verify that countries are not misusing nuclear programs for nuclear weapons purposes. Experts of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) carry out an evaluation process in which several hundreds of indicators are assessed according to the information obtained from different sources, such as State declarations, on-site inspections, IAEA non-safeguards databases and other open sources. These assessments are synthesized in a hierarchical way to obtain a global assessment. Much information and many sources of information related to nuclear safeguards are vague, imprecise and ill-defined. The use of the fuzzy linguistic approach has provided good results to deal with such uncertainties in this type of problems. However, a new challenge on nuclear safeguards evaluation has attracted the attention of researchers. Due to the complexity and vagueness of the sources of information obtained by IAEA experts and the huge number of indicators involved in the problem, it is common that they cannot assess all of them appearing missing values in the evaluation, which can bias the nuclear safeguards results. This paper proposes a model based on collaborative filtering (CF) techniques to impute missing values and provides a trust measure that indicates the reliability of the nuclear safeguards evaluation with the imputed values.

Plant Fiber Intake in the Pediatric Diet

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
pp. 572-575
Author(s):  
Lewis A. Barness ◽  
Peter R. Daliman ◽  
Homer Anderson ◽  
Platon Jack Collipp ◽  
Buford L. Nichols ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dietary Fiber ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Lignin Content ◽  
Strong Acid ◽  
The United States ◽  
Food Composition ◽  
Base Hydrolysis ◽  
Crude Fiber ◽  
Fiber Intake ◽  
Food Composition Tables

Dietary fiber has been defined as the part of material in foods impervious to the degradative enzymes of the human digestive tract. The dietary fiber of plants is comprised of carbohydrate compounds including cellulose, hemicellulose, pectin, gums, mucilages, and a noncarbohydrate substance, lignin. These substances, which form the structure of plants, are present in the cell walls of all parts including the leaf, stern, root, and seed.1 Animal tissue also contains indigestible substances. Crude fiber and dietary fiber are not the same thing. Crude fiber refers to the residue left after strong acid and base hydrolysis of plant material. This process dissolves the pectin, gums, mucilages, and most of the hemicellulose and mainly is a measure of the cellulose and lignin content. Clearly, this method tends to underestimate the total amount of fiber in the food.1 Most food composition tables give only crude fiber values. Current interest in fiber was stimulated by the suggestion that it might help to prevent certain diseases common in the United States, namely diverticular disease, cancer of the colon, irritable bowel syndrome, obesity, and coronary heart disease.2-4 African blacks in rural areas where the fiber intake was high rarely had these diseases; however, during the past 20 years as this population moved to the cities and adopted Western habits (including a Western diet), they began to suffer from the same "Western-type" diseases. A high-fiber diet increases fecal bulk, produces softer, more frequent stools, and decreases transit time through the intestine.5 These factors may be responsible for the supposed beneficial effects of fiber.

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