We are pleased to announce the winners of our bi-annual Poster Competition! The competition was open to any original scientific research on “Food Composition, intake & consumption information”. Congratulations to Hannah Pinchen (Quadram Bioscience Institute, UK), Kristy Trigg (Medical Research Council Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, UK) and to Nicola Lynch (Nutritics, IE) for their work! Each of them received access license to Nutritics recipe calculation software and Nicola received a gift voucher.

Posters presented: 

• • Computer-supported Borrowing of Missing Nutrient Values in Food Composition Databases (Main author: Gordon Ispirova, Jožef Stefan Institute, SI) – POSTER
  • Methods for adding new foods into the UK National Diet and Nutrition Survey Nutrient Databank (Main author: Kristy Trigg, Medical Research Council Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, UK) – POSTER
  • Extractable and non-extractable antioxidants at the interface of eBASIS structure: database development and expansion (Main author: Aida Turrini, CREA IT) – POSTER
  • Feedbacks and Proposal for FoodEx2 revision 2 implementation: Focus on Dietary supplements (Main author: Aida Turrini, CREA IT) – POSTER
  • Monitoring of salt and sugar in food – an initiative to achieve reference values in Portugal (Main author: Maria Da Gracias, INSA, PT) – POSTER

• The nutriRECIPE model – an algorithm for a nutrient-based assessment of meals also includes bioactive plant compounds – Comparison of standard and healthy menus in a university canteen (Frank Forner, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, DE) – POSTER
• Building food composition capacity in the AFROFOODS region (Mark Roe, QIB, UK) – POSTER
• Addressing limitations with food composition data – The development and automation of a method to estimate amino acid profiles across data sets (Main author: Nicola Lynch, Nutritics, IE) – POSTER
• Updating the spanish food composition data (BEDCA): implementation of the version 2.3 (Main author: Maria Alba Martinez Burgos, UGE, ES) – POSTER
• SeafoodTomorrow (Main author: Siân Astley, EuroFIR AISBL, BE) – POSTER
• NASCENT (Main author: Marija Ranic, EuroFIR AISBL, BE)  – POSTER
• The REFRESH Food Waste Compositional Database (Main author: Hannah Pinchen QIB, UK) – POSTER

At the EuroFIR Food Forum 2016 we were pleased to host our first scientific poster competition.

The competition was open to any original scientific research providing it meets the required format and could be categorised under one of the three topics (see below).

Abstracts were submitted and candidates that were successful were asked to develop their abstracts into posters for presentation at the Food Forum symposium. There also were awards for the best abstract and poster in each of the three following categories, based on scientific content and presentation:

1. Food composition information, food packaging and labelling

• • Versele V., De Backer M., Van Puyvelde., Nicolas G., Slimani N., Huybrechts I., Compilation and evaluation of a European nutrient database extension of methyl-group donors (keywords: Methyl-group donors, Nutrient database, Evaluation) – click here to read the abstract (EuroFIR Members only – after log in)

• • Maesen S., ter Braak A., Lamey L., The Impact of Adding and Removing a Health Symbol on Product Performance: Evidence from a large-scale natural experiment (keywords: Front-of-pack food labelling, Health Symbol, Food purchases) – click here to read the abstract (EuroFIR Members only – after log in)

• • Maillot M., Braesco V., Darmon N., The SENS (Système d’Etiquetage Nutritionnel Simplifié), adapted from the French SAIN,LIM nutrient profiling system, classifies foods into 4 ordered classes (keywords: nutrient profiling, SAIN, LIM, European Regulation) – click here to read the abstract (EuroFIR Members only – after log in)

• • Sivakumaran S., Sivakumaran S., Huffman L., McGhie T., Drummond L., Comparison of three methods for total vitamin C analysis for Zespri® SunGold Kiwifruit, Actinidia chinensis var. chinensis (keywords: Vitamin C methodology, kiwifruit, sample preparation) – click here to read the abstract (EuroFIR Members only – after log in)

• • Bastide N., Logier D., Deolarte F., This H., Recipe calculation: How to handle variability and uncertainty? (keywords: recipe, variability, uncerstainty) – click here to read the abstract (EuroFIR Members only – after log in)

• • Durazzo A., Camili E., Sette S., D’Addezio L., Marletta L., Dietary Supplement Label Database development: approach description and preliminary results (keywords: Dietary supplement, Database, Labelling) – click here to read the abstract (EuroFIR Members only – after log in)

• Martinez Burgos M.A., Moreno Martinez A., de Victoria Carazo I.M., Torregosa Y., Almendros M., Alonso O., Berruezo R., Rojas M., Updating the Spanish Database Food Composition (BEDCA): Implementation of the version 2.2  – click here to read the abstract (EuroFIR Members only – after log in)

2. Nutrient profiling and health eating

• • • Lombardi Boccia G., Lucarini M., d’Evoli L., Aguzzi A., Gabrielli P., Camili E., Characterising bioactive food compounds (in vitro and in vivo), Recipe data base: a tool for the development of food policy guidance (keywords: database, meat dishes, recipe)  – click here to read the abstract (EuroFIR Members only – after log in)

• • • Durazzo A., Lisciani S., Camili E., Marconi S., Gabrielli P., Gambelli L., Aguzzi A., Gambelli L., Lucarini M., Marletta L., Nutrient and antioxidant contribution of some traditional Italian recipes to our diet (keywords: Traditional Italian Dishes, Nutritional Composition, Antioxidant Properties) – click here to read the abstract (EuroFIR Members only – after log in)

• • • Maillot M., Braesco V., Darmon N.,In nutritionally adequate diets, the frequency of consumption of foods from the 4 SENS* classes follows a hierarchical progression, from Class-1 (high frequency) to Class-4 (low frequency). *Système d’Etiquetage Nutritionnel Simplifié (keywords: Nutrient profiling,  Consumption frequency, Portion size)  – click here to read the abstract (EuroFIR Members only – after log in)

• • • Maillot M., Darmon N., Validation of the hierarchical classification of food by the SENS* nutrient profiling system using nutritionally adequate diets designed with individual diet modelling. *Système d’Etiquetage Nutritionnel Simplifié (keywords: Diet modelling, Nutrient profiling, Food labelling) – click here to read the abstract (EuroFIR Members only – after log in)

• • Maillot M., Braesco V., Darmon N., Relevance of the nutrient profiling SENS* system in relation to the overall nutritional quality of observed diets. *Système d’Etiquetage Nutritionnel Simplifié ( keywords: nutrient profiling system, diets, nutritional quality) – click here to read the abstract (EuroFIR Members only – after log in)

3. Characterising bioactive food compounds (in vitro and in vivo)

• • Durazzo A., Manzi P., An overview of antioxidant properties in heat-treated milk (keywords: industrially heat-treated milk, antioxidant properties, unsaponifiable fraction) – click here to read the abstract (EuroFIR Members only – after log in)

• Gotcheva V., Angelov A., Blagoeva G., Production of bioactive conjugated linoleic acid isomers by lactic acid bacterial strains from Bulgarian fermented products (keywords: bioactive conjugated linoleic acid, lactic acid bacteria, bulgarian fermented products) click here to read the abstract (EuroFIR Members only – after log in)

Award 

We are pleased to announce that Nutritics – Professional Nutrition Analysis Software,  sponsored this year’s poster competition. The winners of each of the three categories won  free annual individual membership to EuroFIR AISBL as well as a Nutritics research licence. The overall winner for the best poster across all three categories received an Apple Ipad.

The winners are:

• • • Topic 1: “Food composition information, food packaging and labelling”

Ms Vickà Versele (Faculty of Health Care, Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Odisee, Ghent, BE) for her poster on Compilation and evaluation of a European nutrient database extension of methyl-group donors.

The poster will be soon available.

Authors: Vicka Versele (Faculty of Health Care, Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Odisee, Ghent, Marlène De Backer (Faculty of Education, Health and Social Work, Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, HoGent, Belgium), Heleen Van Puyvelde (Faculty of Education, Health and Social Work, Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, HoGent, Belgium), Geneviève Nicolas (Dietary Exposure Assessment Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France), Nadia Slimani   (Dietary Exposure Assessment Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France), Inge Huybrechts (Dietary Exposure Assessment Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France).

• • • Topic 2 “Nutrient profiling and health eating”

Dr Matthieu Maillot (MS Nutrition, FR) for his poster on Validation of the hierarchical classification of food by the SENS* nutrient profiling system using nutritionally adequate diets designed with individual diet modelling.                                        *Système d’Etiquetage Nutritionnel Simplifié.

Authors: Dr Matthieu Maillot  (MS Nutrition, France),  Véronique Braesco (VAB-Nutrition, Clermont-Ferrand,  France), Nicole Darmon (UMR NORT INRA/INSERM/AMU, Marseille, France).

• • • Topic 3: “Characterising bioactive food compounds (in vitro and in vivo)”

Dr Alessandra Durazzo (CREA, IT) for her poster on “An overview of antioxidant properties in heat-treated milk”.

Authors: Alessandra Durazzo (CREA-AN, IT), Pamela Manzi (CREA-AN,IT)

We would like to extend our gratitude to Nutritics for their support and sponsorship for the EuroFIR Food Forum 2016.

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