During this World Food Day, we would like to take you on a culinary journey around the world by sharing typical recipes from the countries where our team members come from. We will go from Central America and the Caribbean, all the way to Europe and then finally, we will finish in China. First
World food day: Celebrating our International Scientists Working on International Food and Health Projects
It’s World Food Day http://www.fao.org/world-food-day/home/en, and what better day to show some appreciation to our international food and health scientists in the team? We are Food Databanks National Capability (FDNC), based at The Quadram Institute Bioscience (QIB) in Norwich and are
World Egg Day
The Nutritional Content of Eggs; all our eggs in one basket I have told myself a dozen times not to poach any egg puns from the internet, so from now on this blog will be pun free* (*Disclaimer: This will be eggstremely hard) Who wants to know the nutrition content of eggs? Perhaps
Food Databanks welcomes a new team member
We are pleased to introduce Liangzi who joined us on the 1st October 2020 for 12 months maternity cover. Liangzi has a background in dietetics, food science and nutrition. Her PhD project focused on improving the cost-efficiency of the dietary assessment method used in National Food Consumption
PERSFO
PERSFO Project Meeting, 21st September 2020 Members of the FDNC team recently took part in the latest online project meeting for PERSFO. It was the third virtual project meeting we have held since our initial kick-off meeting in Brussels in January this year. PERSFO (Personalised and Connected
Top 10 tips for working from home – BBC Food
The BBC Good Food have published a blog to support remote-working habits and includes exercise tips, nutritious lunch ideas and advice for staying active and alert. To find out more head to the website: https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/howto/guide/top-tips-working-home If you would like to search our
IMEKO Foods Conference
Paul Finglas, Head of Food Databanks, attended the IMEKO Foods Conference on 17th September 2020. He gave a plenary talk on “The Food Nutrition Security Cloud in Europe” and explained how it’s vision aims to help overcome fragmentation of food and nutrition data in Europe. IMEKO Foods is
The Human Microbiome course launched to demystify the microbiome
A new, free, online course is being launched to help you discover more about the microbiome and its links to health throughout our lives. ‘The Human Microbiome’ course runs over three weeks, starting on 30th November 2020. It will introduce the human microbiome and explain how this