Resources

This Intake dietary data video describes the nutrition situation in Mexico and how dietary data have been used to successfully advocate for and inform evidence-based food…

This report - completed on behalf of the EuroFIR Consortium - compares recipe calculation methods used in Europe in an attempt to harmonize recipe calculation procedures to enable between-country…

This report - completed on behalf of the EuroFIR Consortium – provides specific guidance to support the recipe calculation procedures recommended by EuroFIR in which weight yields are applied at…

This United University Press publication provides guidelines on the organization and content of food composition tables and databases, methods for analyzing foods and compiling those tables, and…

This technical report describes the process of developing food-based dietary guidelines (FBDGs). One of the steps in this process is to gather information on individual food consumption patterns…

This guidance document describes the steps to be followed to adapt an existing dietary intake tool to collect information on biodiverse foods, and also provides recommendations for the development…

This document, in French, provides data for a listing of foods on weight per household measure, portion, or unit; ‘partie comestible’ (edible portion); ‘facteur de reduction’ (reduction factor); ‘…

This report describes the importance of food consumption surveys as analytical tools in food and nutrition policy and programme design, and in the targeting and monitoring of…

This document provides guidelines to assist countries in the design and implementation of appropriate food fortification programs.

LanguaL is a faceted food description language that was originally developed by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for food safety purposes.  It has been further developed in Europe…