Links and literature

Other food composition databases

• Belgium NUBEL, NIMS
• Denmark DTU, Danish Food Composition Databank, version 7.01
• France AFSSA/CIQUAL French food composition table version 2008
• Germany MRI, German Food Code and Nutrient Data Base
• Germany MedPharm, Souci-Fachman-Kraut
• Greece Hellenic Health Foundation,Composition tables of foods and Greek dishes
• Greece Medical School of Crete,Composition tables of foods and Greek dishes
• Iceland MATÍS, ÍSGEM
• Ireland UCC, Irish Food Composition Database
• Israel BGU, Israeli Food Nutrient Database
• Italy INRAN, Banca Dati di Composizione degli Alimenti INRAN 2000
• Italy CSPO,Food Composition Database for Epidemiological Studies in Italy
• Netherlands RIVM, NEVO
• Norway UiO, Food Composition Table 2006 (MVT-06)
• Poland NFNI, Food Composition Tables
• Portugal Tabela de Composição dos Alimentos - INSA
• Serbia IMR, Serbian Food and Nutrition Database
• Slovakia FRI, Slovak Food Composition Data Bank
• Spain Base de Datos Española de Composición de Alimentos - RedBEDCA
• Sweden NFA Food Composition Database
• Switzerland ETHZ, Swiss Food Composition Database
• UK UK National Nutrient Databank/McCance and Widdowson’s The Composition of Foods integrated dataset
• USA USDA Nutrient Database
• Brazil Tabela de Brasileira de Composição de Alimentos
• Latin America Latinfoods, Latin American food composition database
• INFOODS directory of food composition databases INFOODS directory of food composition databases
• European Food Information Resource Network EuroFIR

Literature

Nutrition recommendations

• Nordic Council of Ministers. Nordic Nutrition Recommendations 2004. Copenhagen: Nordic Council of Ministers;2004.
• National Nutrition Council. Finnish Nutrition Recommendations. Helsinki: Oy Edita;2005.
• National Nutrition Council. Action programme for implementing national nutrition recommendations. Helsinki: Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry;2003.
• National Nutrition Council

More about food composition databases

• Greenfield H, Southgate DAT. Food composition data. Production, management and use. 2. edition. Rome: FAO;2003. PDF
  
• Klensin JC, Feskanich D, Lin V, Truswell AS, Southgate DAT. Identification of food components for INFOODS data interchange. Hong Kong: The United Nations University;1989.