Abstract
Food composition database (FCD) provides the nutritional composition of foods. Reliable and up-to date FCD is important in many aspects of nutrition, dietetics, health, food science, biodiversity, plant breeding, food industry, trade and food regulation. FCD has been used extensively in nutrition labelling, nutritional analysis, research, regulation, national food and nutrition policy. The choice of method for the analysis of samples for FCD often depends on detection capability, along with ease of use, speed of analysis and low cost. Sample preparation is the most critical stage in analytical method development. Samples can be prepared using numerous techniques; however it should be applicable for a wide range of analytes and sample matrices. There are quite a number of significant improvements on sample preparation techniques in various food matrices for specific analytes highlighted in the literatures. Improvements on the technology used for the analysis of samples by specific instrumentation could provide an alternative to the analyst to choose for their laboratory requirement. This review provides the reader with an overview of recent techniques that can be used for sample preparation and instrumentation for food analysis which can provide wide options to the analysts in providing data to their FCD.
Highlights
Food composition database (FCD) or referred to as food composition tables (FCT) are the basis for almost everything in nutrition
This review provides the reader with an overview of recent techniques available that can be used for detection of important nutrients in food samples which can provide alternatives to their existing traditional methods (Figure 1)
Food analysis is very important for FCD by providing reliable data for the use in many areas of nutrition, food science and health
Summary
Food composition database (FCD) or referred to as food composition tables (FCT) are the basis for almost everything in nutrition. FCD or FCT, are data that provide the nutritional composition of foods. Authentic and up-to-date food composition data are the basis and of fundamental importance in many aspects of nutrition, dietetics and health, and for other disciplines such as food science, biodiversity, plant breeding, food industry, trade and food regulation [3]. FCD has been used extensively in many areas, including for nutritional analysis or assessment of nutrient intakes, prescription of therapeutic diets, nutrition labelling, research into diet-disease relationships, national food and nutrition policy, nutritional regulation of the food supply and planning of nutrition intervention program [4]
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