The KBS diet and nutrition research infrastructure
The KBS combines food composition data with dietary assessment data to estimate intake of food, energy, nutrients and other research related food factors. The infrastructure is used in national surveys, clinical studies and intervention studies, conducted the last two decades. The KBS includes 15 food composition databases, the first compiled in 1977 and the most recent compiled in 2022/2023. The infrastructure has three main modules; 1) the food composition databases, 2) the dietary data module, in which dietary data may be assessed and imported using the 24-hour recall module, food frequency questionnaires, weighed food diaries or other dietary assessment apps and 3) the calculation module.
NutriFoodCalc, the diet and nutrition research infrastructure for the future
The KBS infrastructure has served us well for many years, however a new digital solution of the KBS is now being developed, the NutriFoodCalc, NFC. The new infrastructure solution is estimated to be operational by the end of 2024.
Users
The KBS infrastructure is a tool for researchers in the field of diet and nutrition, including epidemiological, clinical and experimental studies.
References
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