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
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We labelled Burns Night! Have you wondered while you cook your Burns Night supper what the nutrition label would say? No, neither had we, until today, when we decided to create some labels, and here’s what we produced. We used traditional recipes together with nutritional composition contained
Minced meat or Mincemeat? A Christmas Blog
Creating a nutrition label for your Christmas dinner In the UK there are many software systems available to calculate the nutrition content of products and dishes. Most will use the food composition data we compile and maintain. This dataset, however, contains some unknown nutrient
Eating the Gap: Online event, Ingredients for Health
Maria Traka, Deputy Head of Food Databanks National Capability will be speaking at Eating the Gap virtual event, organised by Foodpairing, funded by EIT Food on Monday 16th November 2020. Maria will take part in the session on food, gut microbiome and mood. She will be talking whilst a chef
New eBASIS Publication
Jenny and Paul from Food Databanks National Capability, working with a team from CREA (Research Centre for Food and Nutrition, IT) have published their recent work on the expansion of the eBASIS database to include a new group of bioactive compounds present in foods. eBASIS, (Bioactive Substances
Food Matters online live event
Maria Traka, Deputy Head of FDNC was invited to a webinar on Personalised Nutrition and Gut Microbiome on the 14th October 2020, along with Dr Sarah Berry, senior Lecturer, Kings College London (top right), Dr Wilbert Sybesma, Innovation Manager in Gut Health, DSM (top left). The
Front of Pack Nutrition Labelling Consultation
Quadram Institute and Food Databanks National Capability Response to Front of Pack Nutrition Labelling Consultation The Government recently held an open consultation regarding “Front-of-pack nutrition labelling in the UK: building on success”