Dear Yasmine,
Did you also investigate the International Nutrient Databank Directory
(http://www.nutrientdataconf.org/indd/)?
There seems to be something mentioned for Thailand, the INMUCAL software
available from Institute of Nutrition, Mahidol University. See
http://www.inmu.mahidol.ac.th/inmucal/
You should contact Assoc. prof. Prapasri Puwastien (nuppw at mahidol.ac.th).
The WorldFood Dietary Assessment System (originally DOS environment)
contained a list of 1800 foods reported in six countries (Egypt, Kenya,
Mexico, Senegal, India, and Indonesia ?other?) where users can specify foods
and amounts in a one-day diet using a menu-driven food selection process.
I think that
Dr. Suzanne Murphy,
Cancer Research Center of Hawaii,
University of Hawaii
Honolulu, HI 96813
(suzanne at crch.hawaii.edu) may be able to give you more information about
the WorldFood software.
For Korea, I suggest that you approach
Dr. Cho-Il Kim, Ph.D.
Director
Department of Food & Nutrition Industry
Korea Health Industry Development Institute
Seoul, The Republic of Korea
directly (kimci at khidi.or.kr).
For the Middle East region, in 1995 I prepared a dataset to be used by WHO
Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office (WHO/EMRO, http://www.emro.who.int/)
in connection with their use of (a special version of the?) Danish software,
DanKost (http://dankost.dk/english/).
I have no idea if the nutrition calculation software with the Near East
dataset is still available, but you can contact them.
The dataset contains the food composition data available for a range of
countries in the Middle East region – see attached overview – in electronic
form.
Most of the available data were at that time 10 years or more old.
Furthermore, from the lists of references for the data, it was obvious that
only in very few cases the data in the respective tables are original,
analytical values. In many cases, the origin of the data in the tables are
taken from the larger 'reference' food composition tables, like the FAO Food
composition tables for the Near East, the USDA Handbook No. 8 (now USDA
National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference) or the McCance and
Widdowson's Food Composition Tables.
A similar condition can also be seen from the selection of nutrients in the
local food composition tables and databases.
For China, I know that a dataset was created some 30? years ago in
collaboration with National Cancer Institute (and USDA?). It was available
on a diskette (included in WorldFood?)
For India, I suggest you to contact
T Longvah, Deputy Director, Head
Food Chemistry Division
National Institute of Nutrition
Department of Health Research
Goverment of India
Jamai Osmania PO
Hyderabad - 500007
AP India
directly (tlongvah at gmail.com)
Hope that this helps you a little on the way.
All the best,
Anders
Anders Møller
Danish Food Informatics
Borgediget 12
DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark
Websites: Danish Food Informatics ( <http://www.danfood.info/>
http://www.danfood.info)
SciName Finder™ ( <http://www.sciname.info/>
http://www.sciname.info)
LanguaL™ ( <http://www.langual.org/>
http://www.langual.org)
From: Food Composition Discussion Group
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Subject: Software query
Hello,
I was wondering if anyone can advise me of any nutrient analysis software
packages containing food composition databases for
· China
· Thailand
· Korea
· India
· Middle East region
I have already investigated those listed on the INFOODS website.
Thank you in advance or your time.
Regards
Yasmine
Dr Yasmine Probst
NHMRC Senior Research Fellow
Smart Foods Centre / School of Health Sciences
Health and behavioural Sciences
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University of Wollongong NSW 2522
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