title: Establishment and advances in the online Serbian food and recipe data base harmonized with EuroFIR™ standards.
abstract: Within the European Food Information Resource Network of Excellence (EuroFIR NoE; FP6) and EuroFIR Nexus (FP7) project paucity in food composition databases (FCDB) in the Central Eastern Europe/Balkan (CEE/B) region was identified. As a member of EuroFIR NoE, the Centre of Research Excellence in Nutrition and Metabolism, Serbia initiated creation of the 1st online Serbian FCDB employing EuroFIR quality framework and CEN Food Data Standard requirements, supporting capacity development and designing the web-based Food Composition Data Management (FCDM) software for FCDB building. The 1st online version of Serbian FCDB was launched in 2007, and then extended with food composition data from other Balkan countries (Balkan Food Platform-Regional FCDB). All foods are indexed using LanguaL Thesaurus and coded with EFSA FoodEx2 coding system. To date, upgraded Serbian FCDB with 1046 foods and 129 traditional/common Serbian composite dishes is a prerequisite for nutritional research in Serbia, CEE/B region and wider Europe.
authors.affiliation: Centre of Research Excellence in Nutrition and Metabolism, Institute for Medical Research, University of Belgrade, Serbia; Capacity Development Network in Nutrition in Central and Eastern Europe (CAPNUTRA), Serbia. Electronic address: mirjana.gurinovic@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Mirjana
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gurinović
authors.affiliation: Centre of Research Excellence in Nutrition and Metabolism, Institute for Medical Research, University of Belgrade, Serbia; Capacity Development Network in Nutrition in Central and Eastern Europe (CAPNUTRA), Serbia.
authors.forename: Jelena
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Milešević
authors.affiliation: Centre of Research Excellence in Nutrition and Metabolism, Institute for Medical Research, University of Belgrade, Serbia; Capacity Development Network in Nutrition in Central and Eastern Europe (CAPNUTRA), Serbia.
authors.forename: Agnes
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kadvan
authors.affiliation: Centre of Research Excellence in Nutrition and Metabolism, Institute for Medical Research, University of Belgrade, Serbia; Capacity Development Network in Nutrition in Central and Eastern Europe (CAPNUTRA), Serbia.
authors.forename: Marija
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Djekić-Ivanković
authors.affiliation: Centre of Research Excellence in Nutrition and Metabolism, Institute for Medical Research, University of Belgrade, Serbia; Capacity Development Network in Nutrition in Central and Eastern Europe (CAPNUTRA), Serbia.
authors.forename: Jasmina
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Debeljak-Martačić
authors.affiliation: Centre of Research Excellence in Nutrition and Metabolism, Institute for Medical Research, University of Belgrade, Serbia; Capacity Development Network in Nutrition in Central and Eastern Europe (CAPNUTRA), Serbia.
authors.forename: Marija
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Takić
authors.affiliation: Centre of Research Excellence in Nutrition and Metabolism, Institute for Medical Research, University of Belgrade, Serbia; Capacity Development Network in Nutrition in Central and Eastern Europe (CAPNUTRA), Serbia.
authors.forename: Marina
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nikolić
authors.affiliation: Centre of Research Excellence in Nutrition and Metabolism, Institute for Medical Research, University of Belgrade, Serbia; Capacity Development Network in Nutrition in Central and Eastern Europe (CAPNUTRA), Serbia.
authors.forename: Slavica
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ranković
authors.affiliation: Institute for Food Research, Norwich, UK; EuroFIR AISBL, Belgium.
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Finglas
authors.affiliation: Centre of Research Excellence in Nutrition and Metabolism, Institute for Medical Research, University of Belgrade, Serbia; Capacity Development Network in Nutrition in Central and Eastern Europe (CAPNUTRA), Serbia.
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Glibetić
mesh_terms: D055927:Cookbooks as Topic; D016208:Databases, Factual; D005060:Europe; D005502:Food / Q000592:standards; D005504:Food Analysis / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D055771:Serbia; D012984:Software
keywords: Data base management system; EuroFIR; Food and health; Food composition data; Nutritional tools; Serbia