ReviewNutrients2021
Food Composition Databases: Does It Matter to Human Health?
Review in Nutrients, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.
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- Laboratory-Analyzed Nutrient Values Diverge from Database Estimates in Research-Specific Diets (Notably for Protein, Iron, Sodium).Journal of food composition and analysis : an official publication of the United Nations University, International Network of Food Data Systems · 2026Article
- Development of a Choline Database for Thai Food and a Population-Wide Assessment of Choline Intake in Thailand.Nutrients · 2026Article
- Value Assignment of Vitamin D and 25-Hydroxyvitamin D in Food-Matrix Standard Reference Materials (SRMs) Using Isotope Dilution Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry (ID LC-MS/MS).Journal of agricultural and food chemistry · 2026Article
- Non-Thermal Processing Technologies in Food Industries.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Exploring Dietitians' Needs and Challenges in Food Data Literacy Training: A Mixed Methods Study.Journal of human nutrition and dietetics : the official journal of the British Dietetic Association · 2026Article
- Artificial intelligence in functional food innovation: Bioactive enhancement and formulation optimization: A quasi-systematic review.Food chemistry: X · 2026Review
- Multivariate characterization of the nutritional diversity of traditional Ecuadorian foods.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- Cleaning and using FooDB: a method for extracting compound information and applying FooDB in dietary cohort studies.MethodsX · 2025Article
- Informatics for Food Processing.ArXiv · 2025Article
- The state of food composition databases: data attributes and FAIR data harmonization in the era of digital innovation.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- Physicochemical, nutritional, antioxidant properties and stability monitoring of coconut (Heliyon · 2024Article
- An Online Multimodal Food Data Exploration Platform for Specific Population Health: Development Study.JMIR formative research · 2024Article
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- Integrating Vision-Language Models for Accelerated High-Throughput Nutrition Screening.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2024Article
- AI nutrition recommendation using a deep generative model and ChatGPT.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Food Composition Databases (FCDBs): A Bibliometric Analysis.Nutrients · 2023Article
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- Mediterranean Diet: The Role of Phenolic Compounds from Aromatic Plant Foods.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Chronic diseases are first associated with the degradation and artificialization of food matrices rather than with food composition: calorie quality matters more than calorie quantity.European journal of nutrition · 2022Review
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Abstract
Food provides humans with more than just energy and nutrients, addressing both vital needs and pleasure. Food habits are determined by a wide range of factors, from sensorial stimuli to beliefs and, once commanded by local and seasonal availability, are nowadays driven by marketing campaigns promoting unhealthy and non-sustainable foodstuffs. Top-down and bottom-up changes are transforming food systems, driven by policies on SDGs and by consumer's concerns about environmental and health impacts. Food quality, in terms of taste, safety, and nutritional value, is determined by its composition, described in food composition databases (FDBs). FDBs are then useful resources to agronomists, food and mechanical engineers, nutritionists, marketers, and others in their efforts to address at maximum human nutrient needs. In this work, we analyse some relevant food composition databases (viz., purpose, type of data, ease of access, regularity of updates), inspecting information on the health and environmental nexus, such as food origin, production mode as well as nutritional quality. The usefulness and limitations of food databases are discussed regarding what concerns sustainable diets, the food 'matrix effect', missing compounds, safe processing, and in guiding innovation in foods, as well as in shaping consumers' perceptions and food choices.
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