Database on food trace element content?

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Anzid Karim

Hi Anna

Please try with this document

Institute of Medicine. Food and Nutrition Board. Dietary reference intakes for vitamin A, vitamin K, arsenic, boron, chromium, copper, iodine, iron, manganeze, molybdenum, nickel, silicon, vanadium, and zinc. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.

Anna Hielm-Björkman

Thanks Karim, I just downloaded it. However, i was more looking for nutrient databases that would include microminerals - that you would consider up to date....

Andrew Molloy

Hi Anna,

Please try the following

http://fnic.nal.usda.gov/food-composition

http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/list?MSRE_NO=05060xyzxyzChicken%2C%20broilers%20or%20fryers%2C%20breast%2C%20meat%20and%20skin%2C%20cooked%2C%20roastedxyz

Thanks andrew! anna

Mahmood Sohail

Hi Anna could you please also try "McCance and Widdowson's THE COMPOSITION OF FOODS,m 5th edition, Royal Society of Chemistry, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, 1994. I am sure you may find it quite useful.

Hi Mahmood,

I have not yet located a copy but will keep on trying. Thanks for the reference.

anna