Resources

This website provides access to an online database developed by the US National Agricultural Library to search for food composition data by food item, food group, or manufacturer name.

This website provides access to a directory of food composition databases.

This Intake survey guidance document provides an overview of the main pre-survey tasks that should be considered as part of the planning, design, and budgeting process for large-scale quantitative…

This paper provide an overview of the state of large-scale food fortification in the world, with an emphasis on the gaps and challenges to the scaling-up of the fortification of staple foods…

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.

This document provides the set of food composition data compiled, along with the conversion factors for portion size estimation methods used for the foods and recipes reported as consumed in a…

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…

This document, published in 1975, provides data for “Yield after preparation” as a % (with a % range also provided) for an extensive list of foods described in various forms, and prepared in…

These guidelines aim to describe the optimal information to be collected in food consumption surveys to allow classification and data analysis according to the extent and purpose of food…