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9th October 2020

World Egg Day

The Nutritional Content of Eggs; all our eggs in one basket   I have told myself a dozen times not to poach any egg puns from the internet, so from now on this blog will be pun free* (*Disclaimer: This will be eggstremely hard) Who wants to know the nutrition content of eggs? Perhaps

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7th October 2020

Food Databanks welcomes a new team member

We are pleased to introduce Liangzi who joined us on the 1st October 2020 for 12 months maternity cover. Liangzi has a background in dietetics, food science and nutrition. Her PhD project focused on improving the cost-efficiency of the dietary assessment method used in National Food Consumption

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5th October 2020

PERSFO

PERSFO Project Meeting, 21st September 2020 Members of the FDNC team recently took part in the latest online project meeting for PERSFO. It was the third virtual project meeting we have held since our initial kick-off meeting in Brussels in January this year. PERSFO (Personalised and Connected

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29th September 2020

Top 10 tips for working from home – BBC Food

The BBC Good Food have published a blog to support remote-working habits and includes exercise tips, nutritious lunch ideas and advice for staying active and alert. To find out more head to the website: https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/howto/guide/top-tips-working-home If you would like to search our

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18th September 2020

IMEKO Foods Conference

Paul Finglas, Head of Food Databanks, attended the IMEKO Foods Conference on 17th September 2020. He gave a plenary talk on “The Food Nutrition Security Cloud in Europe” and explained how it’s vision aims to help overcome fragmentation of food and nutrition data in Europe. IMEKO Foods is

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17th September 2020

The Human Microbiome course launched to demystify the microbiome

A new, free, online course is being launched to help you discover more about the microbiome and its links to health throughout our lives. ‘The Human Microbiome’ course runs over three weeks, starting on 30th November 2020. It will introduce the human microbiome and explain how this

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23rd July 2020

Quadram Institute spin-off raises £1m to develop functional soup

The Smarter Food Company, a spin out company from the Quadram Institute has raised £1m to develop foods with health benefits. Its first product will be a soup containing glucoraphanin, a naturally occurring compound found in broccoli. Check out the full article here:

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16th July 2020

The 2019 Journal Impact Factors

Paul Finglas, Head of Food Databanks is also Editor in Chief of Food Chemistry and Executive Editor of TIFS. We celebrate with him the news that both journals have had an increase in their impact factors for 2020, and TIFS moves to No1 in food science.

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

Quadram Institute Bioscience
Norwich Research Park, Norwich
NR4 7UQ UK

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