Carter, MC, Hancock, N orcid.org/0000-0002-1768-2971, Albar, SA et al. (6 more authors) (2016) Development of a new branded UK food composition database for an online dietary assessment tool. Nutrients, 8 (8). 480. ISSN 2072-6643
Abstract
The current UK food composition tables are limited, containing ~3300 mostly generic food and drink items. To reflect the wide range of food products available to British consumers and to potentially improve accuracy of dietary assessment, a large UK specific electronic food composition database (FCDB) has been developed. A mapping exercise has been conducted that matched micronutrient data from generic food codes to “Back of Pack” data from branded food products using a semi-automated process. After cleaning and processing, version 1.0 of the new FCDB contains 40,274 generic and branded items with associated 120 macronutrient and micronutrient data and 5669 items with portion images. Over 50% of food and drink items were individually mapped to within 10% agreement with the generic food item for energy. Several quality checking procedures were applied after mapping including; identifying foods above and below the expected range for a particular nutrient within that food group and cross-checking the mapping of items such as concentrated and raw/dried products. The new electronic FCDB has substantially increased the size of the current, publically available, UK food tables. The FCDB has been incorporated into myfood24, a new fully automated online dietary assessment tool and, a smartphone application for weight loss.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
Keywords: | food composition database; dietary assessment; nutrition assessment |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Food Science and Nutrition (Leeds) The University of Leeds > Faculty of Medicine and Health (Leeds) > School of Medicine (Leeds) > Leeds Institute of Genetics, Health and Therapeutics (LIGHT) > Division of Epidemiology & Biostatistics (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number MRC G1100235/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 02 Aug 2016 13:27 |
Last Modified: | 23 Jun 2023 22:10 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu8080480 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | MDPI |
Identification Number: | 10.3390/nu8080480 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:103108 |