Nutritional composition of dishes commonly consumed by Japanese Brazilians in São Paulo, Brazil.
OBJECTIVE
To calculate the nutritional composition of commonly consumed Brazilian foods and beverages to analyze dietary intake data obtained with a quantitative food frequency questionnaire in a colorectal adenoma case-control study in Japanese Brazilians.


METHODS
Weighed recipes were collected in São Paulo, Brazil and analyzed using NutriBase Clinical Nutrition Manager.


RESULTS
A total of 387 recipes for 76 dishes commonly consumed by Japanese Brazilians were collected: 30 composite main course dishes, 26 composite vegetable dishes, 19 snack foods and desserts, and one beverage. The nutritional composition (energy and 32 macronutrients and micronutrients) was calculated per 100 g for each dish.


CONCLUSIONS
We provided, for the first time, complete and up-to-date calculated nutritional composition data for commonly consumed Brazilian food items, which are essential to assess the current dietary intake among Japanese Brazilians.
Sharma
Sangita
S
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Nutrition Research Institute, Kannapolis, North Carolina 28081, USA. sangita_sharma@unc.edu
Brambilla
Andrea
A
Cao
Xia
X
Iwasaki
Motoki
M
Hamada
Gerson
G
Miyajima
Nelson Tomio
NT
Tsugane
Shoichiro
S
Le Marchand
Loic
L
D001938:Brazil; D004032:Diet / Q000208:ethnology*; D015930:Diet Records; D004034:Diet Surveys; D005260:Female; D005502:Food; D005504:Food Analysis; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan / Q000208:ethnology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009753:Nutritive Value; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires