Resources

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 Intake publication provides an overview of the various methodologic issues that are relevant to the collection and analysis of dietary data when a key objective of the survey includes…

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 Guardian article discusses how unregulated advertising has contributed to a pervasive problem of junk food consumption among children globally.

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 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…

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…

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…

This FAO publication provides guidelines for the production, management and use of food composition data.

This FAO/INFOODS document provides guidelines for checking food composition data prior to the publication of a user table/database.