Peruvian BioKusharu Food Database

As part of the Peruvian research study called: “ <em>Does food biodiversity protect against malnutrition and favor the resilience to climate change-related events in Amazon Indigenous communities? A protocol for a mixed methods study</em>” (see protocol published here), we aimed to create a food-composition database to analyze the nutritional content of the dietary information collected. We partner with myfood24® company to provide guidelines to complete a friendly online version of the database to calculate the nutritient content of macronutrients and micronutrients relevant to the main study, since we are focused on investigating anaemia, we were more interested in the nutrition content of iron in the food intake. This Peruvian BioKusharu food database is going to be used to analyze the food intake collected with a 24-hour recall tool among six Shawi communities to understand the iron intake in the diet. We called this database <em>BioKusharu</em>, since <em>Kusharu </em>means food in the Shawi indigenous language, and <em>Bio </em>represents the biodiversity in the Peruvian Amazon.

<em>本研究作为一项名为《食物生物多样性能否抵御营养不良并助力亚马逊原住民社区提升应对气候变化相关事件的韧性？一项混合方法研究方案》</em>（详见此处发布的研究方案）的秘鲁科研项目的组成部分，我们旨在构建一套食物成分数据库，用于分析所收集膳食信息的营养成分。我们与myfood24®公司达成合作，制定了便捷在线版数据库的使用规范，以计算与本核心研究相关的宏量营养素与微量营养素含量；鉴于本研究旨在探究贫血问题，我们尤为关注膳食摄入中铁元素的营养含量。这款秘鲁版<em>BioKusharu</em>食物数据库，将被用于分析针对6个<em>Shawi</em>（沙维）社区开展的24小时膳食回顾调查工具所收集的食物摄入数据，以明晰人群膳食中的铁摄入量。我们将该数据库命名为<em>BioKusharu</em>，其中<em>Kusharu</em>在沙维原住民语言中意为“食物”，而<em>Bio</em>则代表秘鲁亚马逊地区的生物多样性。