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28th July 2021

The Smarter Food Company launches investor search

The Smarter Food Company, a spin out company from QIB, is on a mission to help prevent Type 2 Diabetes (T2D). It's developing food products incorporating a unique type of broccoli that could help lower high blood sugar, a key risk for the development of T2D. It's about to launch an investment

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19th July 2021

The Quadram Institute joins ELIXIR-UK

We are very pleased to announce that the Quadram Institute (QIB) has become the most recent organisation to join ELIXIR-UK, bringing the total number of member organisations to 20. You can view the full list of member organisations here. Maria Traka has joined ELIXIR-UK as the

News

7th July 2021

Wimbledon

Q: What can you serve but not eat? A: A tennis ball. Give me a break, I am having some trouble with my server, so I have made a food and nutrition related blog using words I can make out of the letters in WIMBLEDON. Fifteen of them. “How many?” “Fifteen: love” BOILED; there will be

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16th June 2021

PERSFO Project in Future Learn Blog

Being more conscious and aware of the food we eat and how it is produced, can benefit not only our health but also the environment. Read more about this fascinating and relevant topic and how our own PERSFO project is playing a role in the personalised nutrition field, in the following blog

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20th May 2021

Rising to the challenge: managing clinical trials during a pandemic

Kathryn Murray, our Human Studies Research Scientist shared her experience of managing the DIME Study, during the COVID-19 pandemic. “Delivering a clinical study at a time when we were all asked to stay at home initially seemed impossible, but dogged determination and a collaborative effort from

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19th May 2021

Updates to McCance and Widdowson’s The Composition of Foods Integrated Dataset

The latest McCance and Widdowson’s The Composition of Foods Integrated Dataset 2021 has been published by Public Health England and can be downloaded at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/composition-of-foods-integrated-dataset-cofid#history This version of the dataset includes the

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13th May 2021

PARTICIPANTS 65+ NEEDED!

Our FNS-Cloud colleagues at the University of Reading are currently running a short study to test their online food and drink questionnaire (eNutri) as part of the project. FNS-Cloud, which FDNC is also part of, aims to overcome the fragmentation of food and nutrition data and services across

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28th April 2021

Stop Food Waste Day 2021

This short video https://youtu.be/R1uSV1do6Po shows a few examples of how food waste from food processing can be reused for other purposes, our contribution to Stop Food Waste Day 2021. Approximately one-third of foods fit for human consumption are wasted globally (ca. 1.3 billion tonnes

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Ciara Carthy
PA & National Capability Support
Tel: +44 (0)1603 251431
fdnc@quadram.ac.uk

Quadram Institute Bioscience
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NR4 7UQ UK

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