Updates Every care is taken to ensure that data within the New Zealand
Food Composition Database is true and correct. An updated version
of FOODfiles
is released every 2 years. A new edition of The
Concise New Zealand Food Composition Tables is published every
3 years. Occasionally there is a need to update information between
these releases. Click here
to view foods that have been added to or deleted from the database since the release of FOODfiles 2006.
The New Zealand Food Composition Database contains over 2700 foods and 250 000 component or nutrient values.
When handling large datasets it is inevitable that anomalies
will occasionally occur. Click here
to view any anomalies that have been identified in the datasets.
The New Zealand
Institute for Plant & Food Research Limited and the Ministry of Health
jointly own and fund the New Zealand Food Composition
Database. Staff at Plant & Food
Research manage and maintain the database.