We are very pleased to announce that the Quadram Institute (QIB) has become the most recent organisation to join ELIXIR-UK, bringing the total number of member organisations to 20. You can view the full list of member organisations here. Maria Traka has joined ELIXIR-UK as the
Wimbledon
Q: What can you serve but not eat? A: A tennis ball. Give me a break, I am having some trouble with my server, so I have made a food and nutrition related blog using words I can make out of the letters in WIMBLEDON. Fifteen of them. “How many?” “Fifteen: love” BOILED; there will be
PERSFO Project in Future Learn Blog
Being more conscious and aware of the food we eat and how it is produced, can benefit not only our health but also the environment. Read more about this fascinating and relevant topic and how our own PERSFO project is playing a role in the personalised nutrition field, in the following blog
Rising to the challenge: managing clinical trials during a pandemic
Kathryn Murray, our Human Studies Research Scientist shared her experience of managing the DIME Study, during the COVID-19 pandemic. “Delivering a clinical study at a time when we were all asked to stay at home initially seemed impossible, but dogged determination and a collaborative effort from
Updates to McCance and Widdowson’s The Composition of Foods Integrated Dataset
The latest McCance and Widdowson’s The Composition of Foods Integrated Dataset 2021 has been published by Public Health England and can be downloaded at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/composition-of-foods-integrated-dataset-cofid#history This version of the dataset includes the
PARTICIPANTS 65+ NEEDED!
Our FNS-Cloud colleagues at the University of Reading are currently running a short study to test their online food and drink questionnaire (eNutri) as part of the project. FNS-Cloud, which FDNC is also part of, aims to overcome the fragmentation of food and nutrition data and services across
Food Science and Technology article on Gut Reaction
Kathryn Murray, Andrew Chapple and Cathrina Edwards of Quadram Institute Bioscience explore the links between diet, the microbiome and health. They discuss new research to develop ingredients containing starch with increased resistance to digestion, which can improve fibre in the diet and reduce
PERSFO Consortium Meetings, Jan 25th and 19th March 2021
FDNC team members recently joined colleagues from the PERSFO project for the second Consortium meeting of 2021. The second year of PERSFO activities were officially started at the Kick-Off Meeting in January this year, where we reviewed the 2021 work-plan and discussed finalising the 2020 project