FDNC team members recently joined colleagues from the PERSFO project for the second Consortium meeting of 2021. The second year of PERSFO activities were officially started at the Kick-Off Meeting in January this year, where we reviewed the 2021 work-plan and discussed finalising the 2020 project
FNS-Cloud Consortium Meeting, M18, March 9th-11th 2021
Members of the FDNC team joined FNS-Cloud colleagues for an online Consortium Meeting from 9th-11th March 2021, marking the end of the first project period. Day 1 included a presentation from guest speaker Professor Karel Luyben, Association President for the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). Paul
PhD opportunity
An exciting opportunity to be part of the Critical Decade for Climate Change – Leverhulme Doctoral Scholars programmeat UEA Norwich TRANSFORMING DIETS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY THROUGH EXPERIMENTAL INTERVENTIONS Our global food system is responsible for about a quarter
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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