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”
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
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