*4.3. EuroFIR, European Food Information Resource*

EuroFIR, European Food Information Resource [14], is an independent food composition resource in Europe bringing together food composition datasets from 26 European Countries, Canada, the US, New Zealand, and Japan. It is currently a non-profit international organization that resulted from a network project, Network of Excellence (NoE) comprising of 48 partners from academia, research organizations, and small- and mediumsized enterprises (SMEs). EuroFIR is a food composition table or database providing detailed information on the nutritional composition of foods, typically energy, macronutrients (e.g., protein, carbohydrate, fat) and their components (e.g., sugars, starch, fatty acids), minerals (e.g., calcium, iron, sodium), and vitamins [14]. One of its tools, Food Explorer, is an interface that allows to simultaneously search information about food composition data from most of the available databases from the EU, Canada, USA, New Zealand, and Japan. Food Explorer allows searches by food names or by nutritional groups with the unique ability to allow comparisons of attributes' values of foods from different countries. Another relevant tool in this FDB is Bioactive Substances in Food Information Systems (eBASIS), which is a compilation of food composition and their biological effects. Such data are extracted from peer-reviewed literature as raw data and critically evaluated, thus relying on the curation work of experts.
