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The New Zealand Food Composition Database contains information on the nutrient content of over 2600 foods commonly prepared and eaten in New Zealand. The nutrient measures for each food include:

• fats
• carbohydrates
• protein
• minerals
• vitamins
• fibre
• density
• energy content (calories and kilojoules)

Food and nutrient data are available for a range of uses including dietary assessment, nutrition surveys and research, development of nutrition policies and guidelines, product analyses and labelling, and nutrition claims.

Information from the database is available in various forms. For example, users have access to nutrient data for more than 2650 foods in FOODfiles.

The 8th Edition of the Concise New Zealand Food Composition Tables is available as a pdf document.

A hard copy of the 7th Edition can be purchased from Plant & Food Research.

Concise New Zealand Food Composition Tables contains a subset of 28 nutrients for more than 900 commonly consumed New Zealand foods.

For a general overview of the NZ Food Composition Database you may like to download this summary in PDF format (194 kB).

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