Nutritional composition of the commonly consumed composite dishes for the Barbados National Cancer Study.
OBJECTIVE
To provide, for the first time, the calculated nutritional composition of 32 composite dishes commonly consumed in Barbados to enable dietary intake to be calculated from a Quantitative Food Frequency Questionnaire developed specifically for this population to determine associations between diet and risk of prostate and breast cancer.


METHODS
Weighed recipes were collected in up to six different households for each of the 32 composite dishes. The average nutritional composition for these composite dishes was calculated using the US Department of Agriculture National Nutrient Database.


RESULTS
One hundred and fifty-two weighed recipes were collected for 32 composite dishes: five were fish based, two were ground beef dishes, two were chicken based, two were offal based, two were lamb dishes, one was pork based, three were rice based, three were commonly consumed home-made drinks, and the remaining were miscellaneous items.


CONCLUSIONS
A total of 152 weighed recipes were collected and we provide, for the first time, nutritional composition data for 32 commonly consumed food and drink items in Barbados. Such data are essential for assessing nutrient intake and determining associations between diet and prostate and breast cancer in the Barbados National Cancer Study.
Sharma
Sangita
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Cancer Etiology Program, Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96813, USA. gsharma@crch.hawaii.edu
Harris
Rachel
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Cao
Xia
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Hennis
Anselm J M
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Leske
M Cristina
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Wu
Suh-Yuh
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D001460:Barbados / Q000453:epidemiology; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology*; D003296:Cooking; D004032:Diet; D004034:Diet Surveys; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D005260:Female; D005504:Food Analysis; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009753:Nutritive Value; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology*; D012307:Risk Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires