Guidance

Composition of foods integrated dataset (CoFID)

McCance and Widdowson’s 'composition of foods integrated dataset' on the nutrient content of the UK food supply.

From:
Public Health England
Published:
25 March 2015
Last updated:
19 March 2021, see all updates

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McCance and Widdowson’s The Composition of Foods Integrated Dataset 2021: user guide

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McCance and Widdowson's composition of foods integrated dataset

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McCance and Widdowson's composition of foods: old foods

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Details

Public Health England (PHE) is responsible for maintaining up-to-date data on the nutrient content of the UK food supply in order to support the National Diet and Nutrition Survey, and funds nutrient analysis of foods commonly consumed in the UK.

The ‘Composition of Foods Integrated Dataset’ (CoFID) brings together all the available data as a single, consolidated dataset. The update published in 2021 incorporates data from a 2020 report on nutrient analysis of key cuts of pork including updates for associated foods and recipes within the pork section.

Data on the following foods have been corrected:

  • vitamin C in watercress
  • iodine in soya yogurt
  • vitamin E, sugars and biotin in boiled and steamed sweet potato

All other values remain unchanged from the 2019 update of CoFID.

In addition, certain foods that were included in the 2008 update were not reviewed or validated in the 2015, 2019 or 2021 update, and those foods are published separately in a file containing data for ‘old’ foods.

Published 25 March 2015
Last updated 19 March 2021 + show all updates

  1. Updated dataset and user guide.

  2. Updated dataset and user guide.

  3. First published.

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