This edition contains the following articles:
New Nutrients in NDSR 2019 – Lignans
Is there a nutrient or other food components you’d like added to NDSR for a research project?
New Food Amounts Reporting Booklet for Infants and Toddlers
New Foods
New Nutrients in NDSR 2019 – Lignans
There is growing interest in studying the possible health benefits of lignans, a large group of polyphenols present in a wide variety of plant foods, including seeds (flax, pumpkin, sunflower, poppy, sesame), whole grains (rye, oats, barley), bran (wheat, oat, rye), beans, fruit (particularly berries), and vegetables. In order to support this research, we are adding lignans (total and four subtypes) to NDSR 2019.
A large portion of the effort required to add lignans to NDSR is being supported by NIH through a subcontract with Harvard University for the Dietary Etiologies of Heart Disease study (R01HL035464-27).
Is there a nutrient or other food components you’d like added to NDSR for a research project?
Let us know about the nutrients or other food components you’d like added to NDSR (
ndsrhelp@umn.edu), and consider a research partnership to support the addition of a specific nutrient or food component.
The effort (and in turn cost) involved in adding some novel nutrients and food components poses a challenge to their timely addition to NDSR, but this challenge may be addressed through research partnerships. A recent example of a successful partnership is the addition of lignans to NDSR 2019 in response to the needs of a study being conducted by researchers at Harvard University (see article ‘New Nutrients in NDSR 2019 – Lignans’). Gluten was added to NDSR in 2017 through a similar type of partnership with a researcher at Columbia University.
If you are interested in partnering to support the addition of a nutrient or food component to NDSR, please contact us.
New Food Amounts Reporting Booklet for Infants and Toddlers
The food amounts reporting booklet used in dietary recall collection for the 2016 Feeding Infants and Toddlers Study (FITS) is now available for download from our website . The booklet, titled ‘Food Measurement Aids for Infants and Toddlers’*, depicts actual foods or abstract shapes and figures in infant and toddler appropriate sizes (e.g. includes depictions of sippy cups and baby food pouches in various sizes).
*This booklet is from Anater AS, Catellier DJ, Levine BA, Krotki KP, Jacquier EF, Eldridge AL, Bronstein KE, Harnack LJ, Lorenzana Peasley JM, Lutes AC. The Feeding Infants and Toddlers Study (FITS) 2016: study design and methods. J Nutr 2018;148:1516S–24S.
New Foods
The following foods are included with the NCC News Bite for November 2018. A New Foods Backup File is available for download on our website under New Food Backup Files ,
“November 2018”.
• Evol Lean & Fit Egg White, Kale, Roasted Tomato & Goat Cheese Flatbread
• Gatorade Zero
• Epic Bar – Chicken Sriracha
• Good Karma Flax Milk – Original Flavor
• Kirkland Protein Bar – Chocolate Brownie
• Ezekiel 4:9 Almond Flake Cereal