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
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
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
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
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
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
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:
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.