Journal
FOOD CHEMISTRY
Volume 113, Issue 3, Pages 799-803Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2008.06.049
Keywords
Nutrient database; Contaminant database; Vitamins; Minerals; Secondary plant metabolites; Nitrate; Heavy metals; Pesticides; Vegetables; Organic; Variability
Funding
- Ministry of the Flemish Community (Department of Sustainable Agricultural Development - ADLO)
- European Food information Resource Network (EuroFIR)
- Institute for the Promotion of Innovation through Science and Technology in Flanders (IWT-Vla-anderen)
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Dietary intake assessment can be considered as a two-step process consisting of collecting and evaluating food composition data, and combining these data with food consumption data. The purpose of this study was to develop databases of nutrient and contaminant concentrations in organic and conventional vegetables and potatoes based on internationally available secondary data. Databases, as described here, are important in (1) comparing the composition of similar foods (organic versus conventional) and (2) assessing probabilistically the combined intake of nutrients and contaminants when nutritional and toxicological dimensions of food consumption are being studied simultaneously. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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