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16th December 2020

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

News

13th November 2020

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

News

13th November 2020

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

News

11th November 2020

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

News

27th October 2020

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”

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16th October 2020

Recipes from around the world by FDNC team

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

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16th October 2020

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

News

9th October 2020

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

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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.

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

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

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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

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