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Dietary Record Processing

The NCC Service Center provides a variety of dietary record processing services using NDSR. NCC expertise and experience with dietary records ensures standardization of data entry and promotes research quality dietary data.

• Record data entry is completed by NCC staff trained and certified in dietary data entry procedures specific to your study.


• Requests are made for additional information from the client if questionable items or data quality issues are identified.


• Quality assurance procedures are conducted at several levels during processing.


• NDSR output files are provided in a flexible format for ease with data analysis.

Food Records
NCC trains dietary interviewers to instruct study participants to record food intake, and to review and document food records to utilize NDSR to its fullest capabilities. Clients send reviewed and documented food intake records to NCC on a scheduled basis for data entry and processing. NDSR data output provides a series of files to allow nutrient analysis per ingredient, food, meal, and day. Food group serving count information for 166 food subgroups is also provided per food, meal and day.

Menus
The NCC Food Service Data Collection Notebook is available to facilitate collection of detailed menu information. Documented menus including food product labels and recipes are sent to NCC for data entry. NDSR data output provides a series of files to allow nutrient analysis per ingredient, food, meal, and menu day. Food group serving count information for 166 food subgroups is also provided.

Recipes
Clients provide complete documentation for recipes and submit to NCC for processing and analysis.

Contact Mary Stevens at 612.626.9428 or steve004@umn.edu for more information.