An excellent source for dietary components (vitamins, minerals, etc.)

[ERIC107]

I've recently had lots of very helpful advice regarding a question I had about iron levels (BIG thanks to everyone who replied!), and, as a result, I'm logging my daily iron intake to try to get a clear picture of how much I take in through diet, without supplementing.

I came across this reference website, which I consider to be an excellent resource for information about about the components of many food stuffs. In the UK we do not have iron information on food labels, so I've found the information available here very useful and I thought I'd highlight it, in case it might help anyone else with the same level of inquisitiveness as me!

foodstruct.com/category

[TiggerMe Ambassador]

Excellent find! Thanks for sharing 🤗

I've previously used an old Food Standards Agency "Manual of Nutrition" which is fascinating

[Fruitandnutcase]

Gosh, what an interesting find! Thank you.

[helvella Administrator]

Thanks - have added that to my document:

helvella's Links and References document contains many links to other organisations

A single document containing numerous links to relevant websites. With a focus on the UK it nonetheless includes many non-UK sites.

Rather than a simple list of links, there is a page (or more) per site. This is intended to provide some flavour of the site before you decide whether to visit.

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[ERIC107 in reply to helvella]

Brilliant - thank you!

I wasn't sure if it had maybe been referenced before... but I couldn't find it in any search of this forum (although I know that doesn't necessarily mean it's not there somewhere!).

[helvella Administrator in reply to ERIC107]

Anyone can suggest more entries for my document - a look at it will (I hope) give an impression of the type of site I want to include.

On the food front, it has this link:

McCance and Widdowson’s Composition of

foods integrated dataset (CoFID)

McCance and Widdowson’s 'composition of foods integrated dataset' on

the nutrient content of the UK food supply.

McCance and Widdowson’s The Composition of Foods Integrated Dataset

2021

McCance and Widdowson’s The Composition of Foods Integrated Dataset

2021: user guide

McCance and Widdowson's composition of foods integrated dataset

McCance and Widdowson's composition of foods: old foods

The link includes the user guide, and two spreadsheets – the main data and

an “old foods” supplement. They require you to have some sort of

spreadsheet software such as Excel or Mac Numbers, installed.

gov.uk/government/publicati...

[Emaych61]

Looks excellent! Thanks so much for posting that!

[Otto11]

What an interesting website had a Quick Look. Really informative thanks.

[LifeintheMed]

That websie is fantastic!

[LifeintheMed in reply to LifeintheMed]

Haha - or website even...i like the sound of a websie though

[ERIC107 in reply to LifeintheMed]

😂

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[StitchFairy]

Thanks!