Development of SICA-COR, a food composition information system for Costa Rica

Food composition activities in Argentina, Chile and Paraguay

“…It is held by the University of Chile through the Instituto de Nutricion y Tecnología de los Alimentos (De Pablo, 2000). In Costa Rica, a Food Composition Information System (SICACOR) has been developed to provide access to reliable, representative and recent composition data for local foods (Blanco Metzler et al, 2009).…”

7th International Food Data Conference: Food composition and biodiversity

“…The sessions were as follows: Biodiversity ); Data quality and food sampling (Bhagwat et al, 2009;Tsukakoshi et al, 2009); Bioactive compounds (Mertz et al, 2009;Ikram et al, 2009;Hassimotto et al, 2009;Ranilla et al, 2009;Mira et al, 2009); Food composition databases: compilation and new features (Reinivuo et al, 2009); Food composition databases: applications and sustainability (Seljak, 2009;Charrondiere and Burlingame, 2009); National databases (Haytowitz et al, 2009;Blanco-Metzler et al, 2009;Menezes et al, 2009); Analytical methods (Puwastien et al, 2009;Rodrigues et al, 2009); Regional foods and specific nutrients (Jakobsen and Saxholt, 2009;Richter et al, 2009).…”

“…This work included information on indigenous and traditional foods. Two Latin American experiences were presented: the development of SICA-COR, Costa Rica's food composition information system, which is compatible with the methodology proposed by LATINFOODS (Blanco-Metzler et al, 2009); and TBCA-USP/BRASILFOODS, the Brazilian food composition information system, which contains, in addition to the regular information, data on carbohydrates individually analyzed and glycemic response, and it adopted the INFOODS tagnames (Menezes et al, 2009) as well. It is important to highlight that even with serious economical limitations, developing countries have made efforts in order to develop food composition tables and databases.…”