Development of an Arabic food composition database for use in an Arabic online dietary assessment tool (myfood24)

Bawajeeh, Areej; Kalendar, Sondos; Scarpa, Giulia; Hancock, Neil; Beer, Sarah; Gibson, Lauren E.; Williams, G.; Dashti, Basma; Albar, Salwa A.; Ensaff, Hannah; Zulyniak, Michael A.; Evans, Charlotte; Cade, Janet

doi:10.1016/j.jfca.2021.104047

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“…Our adaptation and integration of the UK NDB into Intake24 has produced a standardised and systematic rationalisation of the former extensive NDB, enabling more efficient database management and use of a generic food list with minimal impact on resulting dietary intake data. Other research groups [ 8 , 17 , 23 , 24 ] developing/using existing technology-based 24 h recalls in a new setting similarly cleaned or updated the underlying food databases as a first step of method development or update. Evans et al [ 17 ] devised a concise food list ( n = 2319) to be used in a self-administered web-based 24 h dietary recall, Foodbook24, for use in Ireland.…”

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Rationalisation of the UK Nutrient Databank for Incorporation in a Web-Based Dietary Recall for Implementation in the UK National Diet and Nutrition Survey Rolling Programme

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The UK National Diet and Nutrition Survey rolling programme (NDNS RP) commenced in 2008 and moved in 2019 from a traditional paper food diary to a web-based 24 h recall, Intake24. This paper describes the approach to update and downsize the underlying UK Nutrient Databank (NDB) for efficient data management and integration into Intake24. Consumption data from the first 10 years (2008/2009 to 2017/2018) of NDNS RP informed decisions on whether foods from the extensive UK NDB were to be retained, excluded, revised or added to for creation of a rationalised NDB. Overall, 5933 food codes in the extensive NDB were reduced to 2481 food codes in the rationalised NDB. Impact on assessment of nutrient intakes was evaluated by re-coding NDNS 2017 data using the rationalised NDB. Small differences were observed between estimated intakes (Cohen’s d ≤ 0.1) for all nutrients and there was a good level of agreement (Cohen’s κ ≥ 0.6) between the extensive and rationalised NDBs. The evaluation provides confidence in dietary intake estimates for ongoing nutritional surveillance in the UK and strengthens the evidence of a good agreement between concise food databases and large food databases incorporated into web-based 24 h recalls for estimating nutrient intakes at the population level.

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Rationalisation of the UK Nutrient Databank for Incorporation in a Web-Based Dietary Recall for Implementation in the UK National Diet and Nutrition Survey Rolling Programme

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“…Therefore, we decided to include three more to make ours more representative of European foods [10]. These widely recognized databases were from Italy [72], the Netherlands [26,27] and the United Kingdom, since these countries had more updated versions [81,82]. Finally, four more international FCT/FCDB were included to enrich nutritional composition: the USDA FCDB, since it is widely used [31], the INFOODS/FAO-FCT/FCDB [14,30] to increase the number of nutrients and to take into account the biodiversity of some foods, and, finally, Phenol explorer 3.6 was chosen [73][74][75] due to the great implication that polyphenols have on diet and health [61]; this allowed for the enhancement of national FCT/CBDT through the addition of more foods and the inclusion of more than 600 bioactive compounds.. We discarded 75% of the foods since quality issues were reported in the estimates when introducing new commercial foods [83], emerging dietary components [61], fortified foods or dietary supplements [84], since these are specific to each country.…”

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“…An example is the FCDBs from countries in sub-Saharan Africa, which import up to 88% of data about animalsource food [22]. Another example is the Middle East FCDBs, which inputted food from the United Kingdom FCDB [81]. The S4H FCDB uses an ad hoc approach to standardize the FCDB, as was done in the EPIC study [66].…”

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Development of an Unified Food Composition Database for the European Project “Stance4Health”

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The European Commission funded project Stance4Health (S4H) aims to develop a complete personalised nutrition service. In order to succeed, sources of information on nutritional composition and other characteristics of foods need to be as comprehensive as possible. Food composition tables or databases (FCT/FCDB) are the most commonly used tools for this purpose. The aim of this study is to describe the harmonisation efforts carried out to obtain the Stance4Health FCDB. A total of 10 FCT/FCDB were selected from different countries and organizations. Data were classified using FoodEx2 and INFOODS tagnames to harmonise the information. Hazard analysis and critical control points analysis was applied as the quality control method. Data were processed by spreadsheets and MySQL. S4H’s FCDB is composed of 880 elements, including nutrients and bioactive compounds. A total of 2648 unified foods were used to complete the missing values of the national FCDB used. Recipes and dishes were estimated following EuroFIR standards via linked tables. S4H’s FCDB will be part of the smartphone app developed in the framework of the Stance4Health European project, which will be used in different personalized nutrition intervention studies. S4H FCDB has great perspectives, being one of the most complete in terms of number of harmonized foods, nutrients and bioactive compounds included.

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“…A standard approach was used to develop myfood24 France, similar to the development of other versions [14,28]. The items of the French version were also coded according to the FAO/WHO GIFT classification, which facilitates international studies.…”

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Development of an Innovative Online Dietary Assessment Tool for France: Adaptation of myfood24

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myfood24 is an innovative dietary assessment tool originally developed in English for use in the United Kingdom. This online 24 h recall, a tool commonly used in nutritional epidemiology, has been developed into different international versions. This paper aims to describe the creation of its French version. We used a consistent approach to development, aligned with other international versions, using similar methodologies. A nutritional database (food item codes, portion groups and accompaniments, etc.) was developed based on commonly used French food composition tables (CIQUAL 2017). Portion sizes were adapted to French dietary habits (estimation, photographs of French portion sizes, assessment of the photograph series and their angle (aerial vs. 45 degrees)). We evaluated the new tool, which contained nearly 3000 food items with 34 individuals using the System Usability Scale. We validated the French food portion picture series using EFSA criteria for bias and agreement. The results of the picture evaluation showed that the angle with which photos are taken had limited impact on the ability to judge portion size. Estimating food intake is a challenging task. Evaluation showed “good” usability of the system in its French version. myfood24 France will be a useful addition to nutritional epidemiology research in France.

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Development of an Arabic food composition database for use in an Arabic online dietary assessment tool (myfood24)

Cited by 12 publications

References 48 publications

Rationalisation of the UK Nutrient Databank for Incorporation in a Web-Based Dietary Recall for Implementation in the UK National Diet and Nutrition Survey Rolling Programme

Rationalisation of the UK Nutrient Databank for Incorporation in a Web-Based Dietary Recall for Implementation in the UK National Diet and Nutrition Survey Rolling Programme

Development of an Unified Food Composition Database for the European Project “Stance4Health”

Development of an Innovative Online Dietary Assessment Tool for France: Adaptation of myfood24

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