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Bridging the food security gap: an information-led approach to connect dietary nutrition, food composition and crop production
Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, Vol.100(4), pp.1495-1504
15/03/2020
PMID: 31756768
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Abstract
Food security is recognized as a major global challenge, yet human food-chain systems are inherently not geared towards nutrition, with decisions on crop and cultivar choice not informed by dietary composition. Currently, food compositional tables and databases (FCT/FCDB) are the primary information sources for decisions relating to dietary intake. However, these only present single mean values representing major components. Establishment of a systematic controlled vocabulary to fill this gap requires representation of a more complex set of semantic relationships between terms used to describe nutritional composition and dietary function.
We carried out a survey of 11 FCT/FCDB and 177 peer-reviewed papers describing variation in nutritional composition and dietary function for food crops to identify a comprehensive set of terms to construct a controlled vocabulary. We used this information to generate a Crop Dietary Nutrition Data Framework (CDN-DF), which incorporates controlled vocabularies systematically organized into major classes representing nutritional components and dietary functions. We demonstrate the value of the CDN-DF for comparison of equivalent components between crop species or cultivars, for identifying data gaps and potential for formal meta-analysis. The CDN-DF also enabled us to explore relationships between nutritional components and the functional attributes of food.
We have generated a structured crop dietary nutrition data framework, which is generally applicable to the collation and comparison of data relevant to crop researchers, breeders, and other stakeholders, and will facilitate dialogue with nutritionists. It is currently guiding the establishment of a more robust formal ontology. © 2019 Society of Chemical Industry.
Details
- Title
- Bridging the food security gap: an information-led approach to connect dietary nutrition, food composition and crop production
- Creators
- Razlin Azman Halimi - Southern Cross UniversityBronwyn J Barkla - Southern Cross UniversityLiliana Andrés-Hernandéz - Southern Cross UniversitySean Mayes - Crop Improvement and Production, Crops For the Future, Semenyih, MalaysiaGraham J King - Crop Improvement and Production, Crops For the Future, Semenyih, Malaysia
- Publication Details
- Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, Vol.100(4), pp.1495-1504
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Ltd.; England
- Grant note
- This work was supported by Southern Cross University (SCU) and Crops for the Future (CFF).
- Identifiers
- 991012925544402368
- Copyright
- © 2019 Society of Chemical Industry
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Science and Engineering; School of Environment, Science and Engineering; Science; Southern Cross Plant Science
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article