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)

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                      LanguaL(http://www.langual.org)

                      

 

 

 

 

From: Food Composition Discussion Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Yasmine Probst
Sent: 27 June 2013 02:32
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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

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University of Wollongong NSW 2522

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