“…The sampling plan to generate food composition data may have different goals. They can be applied to determine nationally representative estimates of the composition of foods (Galeazzi, Lima, Colugnati, Padovani, & Rodriguez-Amaya, 2002;Pehrsson, Haytowitz, Holden, Perry, & Beckler, 2000;Nickle & Pehrsson, 2013); to conduct a pilot study to determine the magnitude of variances associated with specific parameters (e.g., cultivar, feed, breed) (Davey et al, 2007); to generate comprehensive and representative data for a specific nutrient (Holden et al, 2005), among others.…”