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FDNC helping food composition scientists in the Eastern Mediterranean region FDNC are currently working on a project funded by the Medical Research Council, Global Challenges Research Fund, called ‘Capacity building in dietary monitoring and public health nutrition in the Eastern Mediterranean

Producing new data on the nutritional composition of pork Have you seen the new campaigns promoting fresh pork? Within the adverts the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (ADHB) are marketing pork medallions as “just as healthy as chicken breasts”. But are they? That’s where we come

Food Databanks (FDNC) produce and manage data that underpins UK diet study You may have seen the  recent news highlighting how the UK diet is changing. This comes from the publication of the latest National Diet and Nutrition Survey (NDNS), which analyses trends over time, and includes

Maria Traka: New Deputy Head of FDNC We are happy to welcome Dr Maria Traka as Deputy Head of Food Databanks. Maria has a long track record in using nutritional systems biology to understand the molecular mechanisms of disease prevention by complex diets. Her work brings together nutritional

Food Databanks are proud to be part of the Norwich Research Park (NRP), a concentrated presence of world-leading scientists, entrepreneurs and businesses. The NRP have recently committed to a new vision to build a legacy for Norwich as one of the world’s most prominent science based

Food databanks staff provided training during a recently completed EU-funded project. NASCENT; bringing a novel approach to help companies prepare EU- compliant food labels. Read full details here on the Cordis website. During the project FDNC delivered training on the use of food composition data,

Have you wondered if you prepacked your Burn’s night supper what the nutrition label would say? No, neither had we, until today, when we at Food Databanks did, and here’s what we found. We used some traditional recipes and nutritional labelling self-calculation software to produce the following

Paul Finglas, Food Databanks, joined the expert Consultation on Trans-Fatty Acid Assessment at WHO HQ Geneva, Switzerland 11-12 October. Eliminating trans-fat (TFA) is a key to protecting health and saving lives. The goal of this consultation is to develop TFA surveillance approaches and