Food composition databases in the era of Big Data: Vegetable oils as a case study.

ABSTRACT: Understanding the population's dietary patterns and their impacts on health requires many different sources of information. The development of reliable food composition databases is a key step in this pursuit. With them, nutrition and health care professionals can provide better public health advice and guide society toward achieving a better and healthier life. Unfortunately, these databases are full of caveats. Focusing on the specific case of vegetable oils, we analyzed the possible obsolescence of the information and the differences or inconsistencies among databases. We show that in many cases, the information is limited, incompletely documented, old or unreliable. More importantly, despite the many efforts carried out in the last decades, there is still much work to be done. As such,

SUBMITTER: Ferraz de Arruda H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9851468 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature