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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

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

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