Development of an Unified Food Composition Database for the European Project "Stance4Health".

ABSTRACT: The European Commission funded project Stance4Health (S4H) aims to develop a complete personalised nutrition service. In order to succeed, sources of information on nutritional composition and other characteristics of foods need to be as comprehensive as possible. Food composition tables or databases (FCT/FCDB) are the most commonly used tools for this purpose. The aim of this study is to describe the harmonisation efforts carried out to obtain the Stance4Health FCDB. A total of 10 FCT/FCDB were selected from different countries and organizations. Data were classified using FoodEx2 and INFOODS tagnames to harmonise the information. Hazard analysis and critical control points analysis was applied as the quality control method. Data were processed by spreadsheets and MySQL. S4H's FCDB is com

SUBMITTER: Hinojosa-Nogueira D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8704708 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature