Food Databanks

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

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

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

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

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

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