Resources

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

This paper summarizes research that has reported on how dietary data have been collected in the context of shared plate eating, and concludes that methods to assess dietary…

This article, published in the Journal of Nutrition, compares four different methods to assess the prevalence of use and estimate nutrient intakes from dietary supplements among US adults.

This Intake technical report provides a framework for the development of metrics of diet quality for women of reproductive age in low- and middle-income countries.

This systematic review aimed to identify studies that had been carried out to assess the dietary intake of populations in Africa over a ten-year period, and to summarize the methodologies…

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 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…