Food Composition and Dedicated Databases: Key Tools for Human Health and Public Nutrition

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
• Subjects: acceptable daily intake; Arabic sweets; bioactive compounds; Biology, life sciences; branded labels; changes in sodium content; cognitive decline; cognitive impairment; Cultural and media studies; Cultural studies; eight-year-old students; Elaidic acid; elderly patient; EuroFIR AISBL; fast food; food composition database; food data; food data banks; food database; food environments; food standardization; food-based dietary guideline; generic labels; gut microbiota; harmonization; health promotion; health star rating; healthiness; hospitalized patient; industrially-produced trans fatty acids; interoperability; JBCC4 Cultural studies: food and society; Lebanon; Linolelaidic acid; long-term studies; market foods; Mathematics and Science; meal combos; n/a; national food composition databases; natural substances; nutrient composition; nutrient pattern; nutrient profile/profiling models; nutrients; nutritional care; nutritional claims; nutritional knowledge; official control; one health; personalized nutrition; plant sterols; Polish population; population health; price; principal component analysis; private labels; public health; public health policy; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Research and information: general; saccharin; salt content; salt intake; school canteen; short-chain fatty acids; short-term studies; Society and culture: general; Society and Social Sciences; sodium; South Africa; standardization; sucralose; sugar; supermarket packaged foods; sustainable foods; total sugars; traditional dishes
• ISBN: 9783036568515; 3036568506; 9783036568508; 3036568514
• DOI: 10.3390/books978-3-0365-6851-5

This Special Issue collects research on and applications of the relationship between food, nutrition, and databases. The development of databases of nutrients, bioactive compounds, and metabolites are key tools for human health and public nutrition and represent resources for a wide range of applications in food, pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, epidemiology, and medicinal areas. The current research trends are highlighted.