Bawajeeh, AO orcid.org/0000-0001-6415-8139, Kalendar, S, Scarpa, G et al. (10 more authors) (2021) Development of an Arabic Food Composition Database for use in an Arabic online dietary assessment tool (myfood24). Journal of Food Composition and Analysis, 102. 104047. ISSN 0889-1575
Abstract
A comprehensive food composition database (FCDB) is essential for assessing dietary intake of nutrients. However, currently available food composition data for Gulf Cooperation Council countries (GCC) is limited. The aim was to develop an Arabic FCDB of foods commonly available in the GCC (initial focus on Saudi Arabia and Kuwait), which will be integrated into an Arabic version of an online dietary assessment tool, myfood24. The Arabic FCDB was built using a standardized approach identifying currently available foods from existing food composition tables (FCTs), research articles, back-of-pack (BOP) nutrient labels on food products, with additional generic food items from the UK Composition of Foods Integrated Database (CoFID). The development of the FCDB used a 6-step approach: food identification, cleaning, mapping, translation, allocating portion sizes, and quality checking. The database includes a total of 2016 food items, 30 % of which have standard portion size images in addition to other options for portion size estimation. The database and myfood24 have been translated into Arabic to be suitable for Arabic users. These tools will help to assess dietary intake for 51 million people in the GCC. Future work will cover more foods from other Middle Eastern countries to serve over 400 million Arabic speakers in the region.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
Keywords: | food composition table; food composition database; myfood24; composite food; Middle East; Arabic; dietary assessment tool |
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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) > FSN Nutrition and Public Health (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 21 Jun 2021 09:38 |
Last Modified: | 17 Jun 2022 23:43 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.jfca.2021.104047 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:175374 |
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