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Switzerland

Denmark

Finland

Before starting with the cases you will be shortly introduced to food composition databases and data quality.

This will make the objectives of the cases more clear to you.

Example of FCDB's, part of the data on 'apple' are shown.

Here you see a few examples of Food Composition DataBases (FCDBs) from different countries to get an idea how a FCDB looks like.
Select a picture to enlarge them

Some databases have free online access. For example:

Schweizer Nahrwertdatenbank (Switserland)

Danish Food Composition Databank (Denmark)

Fineli ® - Finnish Food Composition Database (Finland)

Tabelle di Composizione degli Alimenti (Italy)

Take some time to visit some of these sites.

FCDBs provide detailed information on the nutritional composition of foods, usually from a particular country. In general, food composition data are used for:

-Estimating the nutrient contents of foods.

-Comparing different foods for their nutrient composition.

-Identifying which foods are good sources of particular nutrients.

If you want to learn more about the different uses of FCDBs you can read:

EuroFIR synthesis report No 2: The different uses of food composition database.