Recipe calculations Tables on weight yield of food Monday 5th November Identifying & Updating Tunisian’s Key Foods list for Food Composition Database - Tunisia Update on status on Food Composition Data in Togo and challenges - Togo Présentation de la politique nationale de nutrition
Trans-Fatty Acid Assessment at WHO HQ Geneva
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
8th African Nutrition and Epidemiology conference, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Paul Finglas, Food Databanks, attended the 8th African Nutrition and Epidemiology conference, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, October 1-5, where he met with AFROFOODs partners from across Africa. Paul presented a talk and poster resulting from our work on BBSRC and MRC funded Global Challenges Research Fund
AAL Forum 2018 in Bilbao, Spain
Daniela Segovia Lizano (QIB) and Angelika Mantur-Vierendeel (EuroFIR) participated as exhibitors at the AAL Forum 2018 (https://www.aalforum.eu/) in Bilbao, Spain from the 24th until the 26th of September. Their stand was dedicated to the Quisper Project (http://quisper.eu/), which offers
Bioavailability 2018
Jenny Plumb, Food Databanks, recently attended the Bioavailability 2018 conference held on Norwich Research Park, where she presented a poster on the recent expansion of the eBASIS bioactives database with data on the composition of extractable and non-extractable antioxidants in food.
Food Databanks Welcomes Two New Staff Members
We are very happy to introduce our newest members of staff, making us a very international group, we have Marisol, originally from Peru and, Daniela from Costa Rica. Dr Marisol Warthon-Medina has a PhD in Nutritional Science and manages our MRC project “Capacity building in dietary monitoring
Jenny’s labelling blog
Recently Jenny had a chat with food blogger “Saucy Dressings” about food nutrition labelling. Read the interview here.
Researchers & industry representatives sought for Food Waste Compositional Database testing
An online database, FoodWasteExplorer, has been developed as part of the REFRESH project to aid identification of market opportunities and better waste utilisation. It contains compositional data for agri-food waste streams. Representatives from the food industry, researchers, independent