Computer-generated vegan menus : the importance of FCDB choice (CROSBI ID 217344)
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Podaci o odgovornosti
Orešković, Petra ; Gajdoš Kljusurić, Jasenka ; Šatalić, Zvonimir
engleski
Computer-generated vegan menus : the importance of FCDB choice
Precise data on food chemical composition is crucial for any quantitative nutrition research and indispensable for evaluation and planning of computer-based menus. Moreover, exact food chemical composition is of the utmost importance in composing specific diets that may be low in certain essential nutrients. Therefore, this research evaluated a weekly vegan menu using three different food composition databases (FCDB): the Croatian, the official Danish Food Composition Database and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) – National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference. Significant differences (p < 0.05) were determined in evaluated and optimised offers for the same menu when using different FCDBs. Furthermore, in these menus quantities of some nutrients have not reached official daily recommendations needed for prevention of non-communicable diseases. In this research, new vegan menus that can provide adequate quantity of essential nutrients, regardless of FCDB utilized, were created with linear optimisation (LO). This resulted in high quality daily menu offers. However, depending on the FCDB that was used, optimal menus differed in daily meal combinations, and the effectiveness of the optimisation in the minimisation of differences caused by differences of data in FCDBs was tested. Linear optimisation has been proved to be an effective tool in planning of specific diets, such as vegan diets. Nonetheless, the quality of computer-planned menus depends heavily on the quality of FCDB used.
Food analysis; Food composition database; Diet evaluation; Menu planning; Linear optimisation; Vegans; Vegetarians; Food composition
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Podaci o izdanju
37
2015.
112-118
objavljeno
0889-1575
10.1016/j.jfca.2014.07.002