Abstract
Primary objective To calculate the nutritional composition of commonly consumed Brazilian foods and beverages to analyze dietary intake data obtained with a quantitative food frequency questionnaire in a colorectal adenoma case–control study in Japanese Brazilians.
Methods and procedures Weighed recipes were collected in São Paulo, Brazil and analyzed using NutriBase Clinical Nutrition Manager.
Main outcomes and results A total of 387 recipes for 76 dishes commonly consumed by Japanese Brazilians were collected: 30 composite main course dishes, 26 composite vegetable dishes, 19 snack foods and desserts, and one beverage. The nutritional composition (energy and 32 macronutrients and micronutrients) was calculated per 100 g for each dish.
Conclusions We provided, for the first time, complete and up-to-date calculated nutritional composition data for commonly consumed Brazilian food items, which are essential to assess the current dietary intake among Japanese Brazilians.
Acknowledgements
The authors wish to thank Mrs Claudia Kunieda, Cristiani Nakashima, and Rosa A. Michelani, and all those people who helped with the collection of recipes.
Declaration of interest: This research was supported in part by grants from the American Institute for Cancer Research (#06A102) and the US National Cancer Institute (R03 CA119682). The authors report no conflicts of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper.