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Nutrition and Food Sciences ***

Nutrition and Food Sciences ***

"The complete online Nutrition and Food Sciences information service that covers human nutrition, food science and food technology."

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A comprehensive resource compiled by food and nutrition specialists.

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Overview
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CABI's 'Nutrition and Food Sciences' is a specialist internet resource covering human nutrition, food science and food technology.

No other resource can provide such a comprehensive view of the food chain or of the interactions between diet and health. 

Compiled by specialists, the resource contains more than 1.5 millions records dating back to 1973, with over 80,000 added annually. There are now more than 75,000 records with fulltext hosted by CABI.

 

It annually selects records from over 6,000 serials, as well as 300 non-serial publications, covering literature from 103 countries. It also covers books, conference proceedings, bulletins, reports and published theses.


Nutrition and Food Sciences 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 (>2,300)
  • Prepared searches on hot topics
  • Commissioned peer reviewed reviews (>2,000)
  • Articles written by authoritative in-house experts
  • Over 200 reviews from CAB Reviews and datasheets
  • Calendar of forthcoming conferences and meetings
  • Links to other relevant internet resources

*Figures correct as of May 2018

 

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Delivery Platforms

CAB Direct (CABI's own platform)

Coverage

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

Clinical nutrition

- nutrition in disease states
- nutritional support: enteral and parenteral feeding
- therapeutic diets, hospital food, dietetics
- nutrient-drug interactions
- food allergies and intolerance
- foodborne diseases

 

Food preservation, processing and the supply chain

- biotechnology 
- fermentation and brewing
- food additives
- food safety, hygiene and contaminants
- food service
- marketing
- packaging
- preservation and storage
- processing
- transport and distribution

 

Food products

- animal products (meat, fish, eggs, milk and seafood)
- beverages (fruits, wine, teas, beers, etc)
- food supplements
- Functional foods
- novel foods and ingredients
- Plant products (fruit, vegetables, cereals, nuts)
- processed foods (baked, canned, dried, convenience foods, etc)

 
Food sciences

- consumer studies
- food chemistry
- food composition and quality
- food microbiology
- food technology
- physical properties of food
- sensory science
- techniques and analysis

 

Public health nutrition

- diet and behaviour
- diet studies
- food aid, emergency feeding, food programmes, school food
- food and nutrition policy
- nutrition and growth
- nutrition at different life stages (breastfeeding, infants, children, mothers, elderly)
- nutrition education
- nutritional epidemiology, role of nutrients in disease
- obesity and malnutrition
- sociological and cultural aspects of food and diet

 

Nutrition physiology and biochemistry

- effects of nutrients on the body: tissues, blood values, biochemical parameters, body composition, - gastroenterology
- effects of antioxidants and phytochemicals 
- appetite, taste, smell, satiety
- digestion, absorption, physiology and metabolism of nutrients
- nutrient requirements
- nutrition and exercise, sports nutrition

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User guides
NFS Database userguide
  Nutrition & Food Science Database userguide

 

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If you require personal training on any of our products, please contact us directly at training@cabi.org, for more information or visit our training page.

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Who Uses it

Lecturers, researchers and students
Government scientists and policy makers
Industry food scientists and technologists
Food safety authorities
Nutrition professionals
Dieticians

Partners

Editorial Advisory Board

Professor Lenore Arab
David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA
Los Angeles
USA

Professor Tapan Basu
University of Alberta
Edmonton
Canada

Professor Karen Chapman-Novakofski
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
USA

Dr. Linley Chiwona-Karltun
International Foundation for Science
Karlavägen 108, 5th floor
S- 115 26 Stockholm
Sweden

Professor Nathalie M Delzenne
Université Catholique de Louvain UCL
Brussels
Belgium

Dr C Devendra
Consulting Tropical Animal Production Specialist
Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia

Professor J. M. Forbes
University of Leeds
UK

Professor D. I .Givens
Reading University
UK

Professor William Heird
Baylor College of Medicine
USA

Professor C. J. K. Henry
Oxford Brookes University
UK

Professor Ron Maughan
Loughborough University
UK

Professor Connie M. Weaver
Purdue University
USA

Dr. Ross M. Welch
Cornell University
U.S. Plant, Soil and Nutrition Laboratory
USA

  
Serials Cited

View CABI's journal selection criteria for CAB Abstracts and Global Health

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

Instructions for submitting a journal and an online form are available.

Download complete list as a text file.

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Title ISSN
Wageningen Environmental Research rapport 1566-7197
Walailak Journal of Science and Technology 1686-3933
Washington State Journal of Public Health Practice 1934-6360
Waste and Biomass Valorization 1877-2641
Waste Management 0956-053X
Waste Management & Research 0734-242X
Water 2073-4441
Water Alternatives 1965-0175
Water and Environment Journal 1747-6585
Water Environment Research 1061-4303
Water International 0250-8060
Water Policy 1366-7017
Water Practice & Technology
Water Quality Research Journal 1201-3080
Water Research (Oxford) 0043-1354
Water Resources and Economics 2212-4284
Water Resources Management 0920-4741
Water Resources Research 0043-1397
Water SA 0378-4738
Water Saving Irrigation 1007-4929
Water Science and Technology 0273-1223
Water Science and Technology: Water Supply 1606-9749
Water Wheel 0258-2244
Water, Air, and Soil Pollution 0049-6979
Waterlines 0262-8104
Wayamba Journal of Animal Science
Weed Biology and Management 1444-6162
Weed Research (Oxford) 0043-1737
Weed Science 0043-1745
Weed Technology 0890-037X
Weekly Epidemiological Record 0049-8114
West African Journal of Applied Ecology 0855-4307
West Indian Medical Journal 0043-3144
Western Economics Forum
Western Pacific Surveillance and Response 2094-7321
Wheat Information Service 0510-3517
WHO Food Additives Series 0300-0923
WHO South East Asia Journal of Public Health 2224-3151
WHO Technical Report Series 0512-3054
Wiadomosci Zootechniczne 1731-8068
WIDER Working Papers 1798-7237
Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift 0043-5325
Wiener Tierärztliche Monatsschrift 0043-535X
Wilderness and Environmental Medicine 1080-6032
Wildlife Research 1035-3712
Wildlife Society Bulletin 1938-5463
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change 1757-7780
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Developmental Biology
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Energy and Environment 2041-8396
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water
Wine and Viticulture Journal 1838-6547
WIT Transactions on Biomedicine and Health 1743-3525
WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment 1743-3541
WIT Transactions on the Built Environment 1743-3509
Woda Srodowisko Obszary Wiejskie 1642-8145
Women & Health 0363-0242
Wood Science and Technology 0043-7719
Working Paper - Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Iowa State University
Working Paper - Centre for Global Development
Working Paper - Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University
Working Paper - Department of Economics and Finance, University of Canterbury
Working Paper - Department of Economics, Appalachian State University
Working Paper - Department of Economics, Iowa State University
Working Paper - Department of Environmental and Business Economics, University of Southern Denmark 1399-3224
Working Paper - Economics, Ecology and the Environment, School of Economics, University of Queensland 1327-8231
Working Paper - Future Agricultures
Working Paper - Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University
Working Paper - Gujarat Institute of Development Research, Ahmedabad
Working Paper - Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
Working Paper - Institute of Rural Management (Anand)
Working Paper - International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium
Working Paper - International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG)
Working Paper - Office of Industries, U.S. International Trade Commission
Working Paper - Resource Economics and Policy Analysis (REPA) Research Group, Department of Economics, University of Victoria
Working Paper - Secure Livelihoods Research Consortium
Working Paper - South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics (SANDEE) 1893-1891
Working Paper - The Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University
Working Paper - University of Hawaii Economic Research Organization, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Working Paper Series - Charles J. Zwick Center for Food and Resource Policy, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Connecticut
Working Paper Series - National Bureau of Economic Research (Massachusetts) 0898-2937
Working Paper Series - School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University
Working Paper, School of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Western Australia
Working Papers - Department of Economics, University of Alberta
Working Papers - Economic Research Southern Africa
Working Papers in Economics - Department of Economics, University of Waikato
World Aquaculture 1041-5602
World Bank Economic Review 0258-6770
World Development (Oxford) 0305-750X
World Development Perspectives 2452-2929
World Economy 0378-5920
World Forestry Research 1001-4241
World Health & Population 1718-3340
World Journal of Gastroenterology 1007-9327
World Journal of Microbiology & Biotechnology 0959-3993
World Journal of Surgery 0364-2313
World Leisure Journal 1607-8055
World Medical and Health Policy
World Mycotoxin Journal 1875-0710
World Neurosurgery 1878-8750
World Rabbit Science 1257-5011
World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development 1746-0573
World Review of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development 1741-2242
WorldFish Center Issues Brief
Worlds Poultry Science Journal 0043-9339
Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes 1755-4217
Wound Healing Southern Africa 1998-8885
Wound Repair and Regeneration 1067-1927
WRC Report
Wuhan University Journal of Natural Sciences 1007-1202