The European Databases:

These pages include the most recent information about the food composition databases in European.

The food composition database information is based on an inventory (D1.6.1) carried out by the EuroFIR work packages 1.4, 1.5 and 1.6 in 2005 and the information has been updated when new information has become available.

Organisation of the inventory data

The inventory is structured by countries. For each country, the major institutions involved in the production or compilation of food composition databases are listed. For each institution, the information given by the the institution is listed.

EuroFIR partners

Organisation	Country	Database Name	Web	More
UVI	Austria	German "Bundeslebensmittelschlüssel"
NUBEL	Belgium	NIMS
NCH	Bulgaria	FCTBL_BG (food composition tables - Bulgaria)
DFI	Denmark	Danish Food Information Databases
DTU	Denmark	Danish Food Composition Databank, version 6
KTL	Finland	Fineli
AFSSA	France	AFSSA/CIQUAL French food composition table version 2008
BFE	Germany	German Food Code and Nutrient Data Base
NKUA	Greece	Data no longer available on the NKUA site. See Hellenic Health Foundation below.
MATÍS	Iceland	ÍSGEM
UCC	Ireland	McCance & Widdowson 6th edition & Irish recipes, supplements and generic codes (>1000 food codes)
BGU	Israel	BGU
INRAN	Italy	Tabelle di Composizione degli Alimenti
CSPO	Italy	Food Composition Database for Epidemiological Studies in Italy
FVS FC	Latvia
NNC	Lithuania	Respublikinis Mitybos Centras - EuroFIR Food Classification
RIVM	Netherlands	NEVO
UiO	Norway	MVT01
NFNI	Poland	Food Composition Tables
INSA	Portugal	Tabela de Composição dos Alimentos - INSA
IMR	Serbia	Serbian Food and Nutrition Database
FRI	Slovakia	Alimenta
UGR	Spain	Base de Datos Española de Composición de Alimentos - RedBEDCA
NFA	Sweden	NFA food composition database
ETHZ	Switzerland	ETH - SwissFIR - the official Swiss food information portal
TUBITAK	Turkey	Turkey does not have its own food composition data base/documentation. There are some national collected (some countries and international data) studies. However not used widely. Mostly used FCDB are German’s and USDA.
IFR	UK	UK National Nutrient Databank/McCance and Widdowson’s The Composition of Foods integrated dataset

Other European food composition data

Organisation	Country	Database Name	Web	More
National Institute of Public Health	Czech Republic	Food Composition Database at National Institute of Public Health
medpharm	Germany	Souci-Fachman-Kraut Food Composition and Nutrition Tables - Online Database
Hellenic Health Foundation	Greece	Composition tables of foods and Greek dishes
Medical School of Crete	Greece	Food Composition Tables of Greek Foods

NOTE
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