Food Databanks

Providing food composition data to underpin food and health research in the UK

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

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

Food Science and Technology article on Gut Reaction

Kathryn Murray, Andrew Chapple and Cathrina Edwards of Quadram Institute Bioscience explore the links between diet, the microbiome and health. They discuss new research to develop ingredients containing starch with increased resistance to digestion, which can improve fibre in the diet and reduce

PERSFO Consortium Meetings, Jan 25th and 19th March 2021

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

FDNC

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