Nutrition and Food Sciences Database

Overview

The Nutrition and Food Sciences Database is a specialist database covering human nutrition, food science and food technology. No other database can provide such a comprehensive view of the food chain or of the interactions between diet and health.

Compiled by specialists, the Nutrition and Food Sciences Database contains more than 765,000 records dating back to 1973, with over 50,000 added annually.

It annually selects records from over 5000 serials, as well as 400-500 non-serial publications, covering literature from 125 countries. It also covers books, conference proceedings, bulletins, reports and published theses.

The Nutrition and Food Sciences Database is available on our new and improved CAB Direct platform. This gives the user a variety of functions to improve their searching and access to full text.

Also on the site:

    * Selected news with links to relevant database records
    * Prepared searches on hot topics 
    * Commissioned peer reviewed reviews
    * Articles written by authoritative in-house experts
    * Calendar of forthcoming conferences and meetings
    * Links to other relevant internet resources

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Coverage

It covers the whole food chain from the properties of raw ingriedients to the dietary effects of food and food components in humans, including

• food composition and quality 
• biotechnology 
• processing
• fermentation and brewing
• food safety
• functional foods
• sensory science
• food microbiology
• food chemistry
• preservation and storage
• packaging
• transport and distribution
• marketing
• economics
• food service
• food composition and quality
• nutritient metabolism and physiology
• appetite and digestion
• nutritional epidemiology
• public health nutrition
• nutritional state and nutrient requirements
• diet studies  
• clinical nutrition
• obesity and malnutrition
• nutrition and disease
• techniques and analysis

Updates to this list are produced monthly. Designation of Open Access publications are currently available in the downloadable version.

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