title: Nutritional composition of dishes commonly consumed by Japanese Brazilians in São Paulo, Brazil.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Nutrition Research Institute, Kannapolis, North Carolina 28081, USA. sangita_sharma@unc.edu
authors.forename: Sangita
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sharma
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Brambilla
authors.forename: Xia
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Cao
authors.forename: Motoki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Iwasaki
authors.forename: Gerson
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Hamada
authors.forename: Nelson Tomio
authors.initials: NT
authors.lastname: Miyajima
authors.forename: Shoichiro
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tsugane
authors.forename: Loic
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Le Marchand
mesh_terms: 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