• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
Food Databanks

Food Databanks

Providing food composition data to underpin food and health research in the UK

  • Nutrients
  • Bioactives
  • Projects
  • Labelling for Food
  • News & Blog
    • Blog
    • FDNC Newsletter
  • About Us
  • Publications
  • Help & FAQs

We labelled Burns night!

You are here: Home / News / We labelled Burns night!

23rd January 2019 by Food Databanks

Have you wondered if you prepacked your Burn’s night supper what the nutrition label would say? No, neither had we, until today, when we at Food Databanks did, and here’s what we found.

We used some traditional recipes and nutritional labelling self-calculation software to produce the following labels.

Starter: Cullen skink
Smoked haddock soup

Main: Haggis, Neeps and Tatties
Haggis, turnips and potatoes

Dessert: Cranachan
Whipped cream, whisky, honey, raspberries, with toasted oatmeal

It’s worth noting, in case you were worried, that your supper celebrating the life and poetry of Robert Burns will not be diminished if you do not know the nutritional composition of your dishes. Additionally, recipes vary, so with different quantities and types of ingredients you may get widely different nutritional information from those we produced.

We have not calculated the calories from the liberal lashings of wine or ale you may drink with dinner nor those in the customary whisky sauce used to douse the haggis, which for some people, may well be neat whisky.

If you would like to try some label calculations yourself with your own recipes, there is a free trial of the Nutritics software available on the Nutritional Information Solutions website.

[First published January 2017]

News

Primary Sidebar

Online Food Composition Datasets

UK Composition of Foods (CoFID)
Searchable website
UK Composition of Foods (CoFID) Excel and user guide
Labelling for Food
eBASIS
Non-Nutrients bioactive compounds Database
FoodWasteEXplorer
Food waste compositional database

About the Quadram Institute

The Quadram Institute is at the forefront of a new interface between food science, gut biology and health. It will develop solutions to worldwide challenges in food-related disease and human health, and bring together the interdisciplinary teams and work with appropriate international organisations to address these major issues.

For general enquiries

fdnc@quadram.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1603 251431

Quadram Institute Bioscience
Norwich Research Park
Colney Lane
Norwich
NR4 7UA

Footer

Contact Us

Ciara Carthy
PA & National Capability Support
Tel: +44 (0)1603 251431
fdnc@quadram.ac.uk

Quadram Institute Bioscience
Norwich Research Park, Norwich
NR4 7UQ UK

Privacy and Cookies

Sign up to our mailing list


Copyright © 2021 · Business Pro Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in