The innovative EuroFIR interface
The EuroFIR eSearch facility is an innovative interface, which can be accessed online and allows its users the simultaneous search of more than 20 standardised and specialized food composition databases (FCDB). Users have access to a wide range of European data, linking foods and nutrients through harmonised data description and associated nutrient value information.
The search facilities include options to search on food name, food description and a combination of food name and food description as well as the powerful and unique ability to compare the component values between foods from European FCDBs. Outputs can be downloaded as spreadsheets, allowing the user to manage the data as required. The FCDBs linked with EuroFIR use standardized food description (LanguaL) and standardized component and value description through the use of thesauri (standard vocabularies) to achieve a fully standardized approach linking between data in the various European FCDBs.
Databases in the eSearch facility include:
- More than 20 European FCDBs available
- Subsets of national FCDBs as a contribution to the EPIC project
- USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference
Other datasets linked in the eSearch facility are:
- EuroFIR eBASIS
- Phenol-Explorer on Polyphenols
- InformAll - Food Allergen Database
- GEMS - Food Codex Classification for Foods and Feeds
- GRIN - Germplasm Resources Information Network - Taxonomy for Plants
For a test access to the EuroFIR eSearch facility, please contact our Research and Development Manager, Simone Bell at simone.bell@eurofir.org.