DIETImpact - Nutritional composition database of model meals

The integration of food composition data to explain, in vitro, the impact of diet on health, requires a precise knowledge of nutrients composition of complex meals. This database supported the project DIETimpact (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-030322-PTDC/SAUNUT/30322/2017). Six meals were prepared: a Western Diet model – WD (fatty beef, French fries and soft drink containing sugar), and other five meals obtained by replacement of: fatty beef by mackerel (M-mackerel) or by chickpeas (M-chickpeas); fatty beef and French fries by lean beef drizzled with olive oil and potatoes fried in olive oil (M-olive); half of French fries amount by broccoli (M-broccoli); soft drink containing sugar by strawberry juice (M-strawberry). All the meal models were prepared without salt addition and mimicking household cooking practices. Macro and micronutrientes composition, making a total of 88 compounds, was analyzed by official methods and by different chromatographic and spectrophotometric techniques.