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KMID : 0665220130260040886
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Korean Journal of Food and Nutrition
2013 Volume.26 No. 4 p.886 ~ p.894
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National Standard Food Composition Tables Provide the Infrastructure for Food and Nutrition Research According to Policy and Industry
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Lim Sung-Hee
Kim Jung-Bong
Cho Young-Sook
Choi Young-Min
Park Hong-Ju
Kim Se-Na
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Abstract
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The National Standard Food Composition Table published by the Rural Development Administration (RDA) provides the foundations in food and nutrition research, nutrition monitoring, policy and dietary practices in Korea. This databases consists of several sets of data including food descriptions, nutrients, portion weights, and source of data. The National Standard Food Composition Table have been published since 1970 and, recently, new version (8th edition) of Food Composition Table which has quantitative and qualitative nutrient data is released in 2011. In addition, the User-friendly Food Composition Table is divided into adult, children, and elderly categories depending on the subjects because we need different nutrients according to various ages. The Tables of Food Functional Composition is firstly edited in 2009. RDA published the minerals and fatty acids composition table, tables of amino acid, fat-soluble vitamin composition table, and the cholesterol table. The resulting database will be widely used. The users of the databases are from diverse fields, includeing federal agencies, the food industry, health professionals, restaurants, software application developers, academia and research organizations, international organizations, and foreign governments ect. Therefore, consistent improvements of the database is important, so that people can better address such health challenges by providing reliable and accurate data.
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KEYWORD
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rural development administration, food composition table, food and nutrient databases, tables of food functional composition, user-friendly food composition table
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