Nutrient content in plant-based protein products intended for food composition databases

Procedures for Estimating Nutrient Values for Food Composition Databases

When used to assess the nutrient content of diets, recipes, or commercial food products, a nutrient database should provide a complete nutrient profile for each food in the database. Chemical analyses for a wide range of nutrients in the many foods included in a database are not always practical. Therefore, some nutrient values must be estimated. Common methods for estimating nutrient values in...

Updated food composition database for nutrient intake

Institute of Food Research, Norwich, UK; EuroFIR AISBL, Brussels, Belgium; ANSES, Paris, France; National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark; Institute of Medical Research, Centre of Research Excellence in Nutrition and Metabolism, University of Belgrade, Serbia; INRAN, Rome, Italy; Instituto Nacional de Saúde Doutor Ricardo Jorge, Lisbon, Portugal; Jožef Stefa...

Stable isotope databases for European food products

Stable isotope ratio analysis (SIRA) of the socalled bioelements (H,C,N,O,S) and the heavy element strontium is applied for food authenticity control and for geographical origin assignment of food products since about 30 years. The first official methods eg for honey and fruit juices have been acknowledged in 1978 and 1981 by AOAC. In 1990 the EU decided to install an official database for wine...

Protein Databases

Proteins are sources of many peptides with diverse biological activity. Some of them are considered as valuable components of foods and drug targets with desired and designed biological activity. We are now entering an era rich in biological data in which the field of bioinformatics is poised to exploit this information in increasingly powerful ways. There are currently many databases all over ...

Opinion of the Scientific Committee on Cosmetic Products and Non-food Products Intended for Consumers