The Global Nutrient Database: availability of macronutrients and micronutrients in 195 countries from 1980 to 2013.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Few data are available on the supply and consumption of nutrients at the country level. To address this data gap, we aimed to create a database that provides information on availability (ie, supply) of 156 nutrients across 195 countries and territories from 1980 to 2013.

Methods

We matched 394 food and agricultural commodities from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Supply and Utilization Accounts (SUAs) to food items in the United States Department of Agriculture Food Composition Database and obtained data on nutrient composition of the SUAs' food items. Then, after adjusting for inedible portion of each food item, we added the contributions of individual food items to the availability of each nutrient and estimated the national availabil

SUBMITTER: Schmidhuber J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6076406 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature