Food Weights and Measures |
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| Food Weights and Measures - Including Portion Sizes |
The weights and measures of foods and food portions are very important parameters not only in connection with recipe calculation and food consumption surveys, but also important measures in catering, meal planning, food product development and food production.
Below is a list of references available online:
- Amcoff E.:
Portionsstorlekar för fisk. Analys och bearbetning av
rapporterade fiskportioner i matvaneundersökningen, Riksmaten
vuxna 2010-11 [Portion sizes for fish. Analysis and processing
of reported fish portions in the dietary survey, Riksmaten
adults 2010-11].
Master Thesis 15 ETCS credit points, 2014 - Department of Food,
Nutrition and Dietetics,
Uppsala University
- Andersen L.T., Jensen H., Haraldsdóttir J.:
Typiske vægte for madvarer
[Typical weight for foods].
Scandinavian Journal of Nutrition/Näringsforskning, Vol. 40 (4),
Suppl. 32, pp. S129-S152, 1996.
- Aquino C.G., Siggaoat J.P.:
Food Weights and Measures: A Reference Tool for Product
Development, Recipe Costing and Nutrient Analyses.
Tabula Rasa Consulting Corp., Manila, 2015.
- Charrondière R., Haytowitz D., Stadlmeyer B.:
FAO/INFOODS Density Database Version 2.0 (2012)
FAO, Rome 2012.
- Church S.:
Trends in portion sizes in the UK - A preliminary review of
published information.
Report to the Food Standards Agency, March 2008 (revised May
2008).
Report
Tables
- Dalane J. Ø., Bergvatn T. A. M., Kielland E., Carlsen M. H.:
Mål, vekt og porsjonsstørrelser for matvarer.
Mattilsynet, Universitetet i Oslo og Helsedirektoratet, 02/2015.
- Hagman U., Haraldsdóttir J., Seppänen R., Steingrímsdóttir
L., Trygg K.:
Portionsstorlekar - Nordiska standardportioner av mat och
livsmedel.
TemaNord 1998:554.
Nordisk Ministerråd, København 1998.
- Hansen I.:
Mad - Mål og Vægt
Statens Levnedsmiddelinstitut - Ernæringsenheden, Søborg 1983.
- Hess Ygil K.:
Mål, vægt og portionsstørrelser på fødevarer
[Measures, weight and food portion sizes].
DTU Fødevareinstituttet, januar 2013.
- KF och ICA Provkök:
Mått för mat - Mått, vikt tid och temperatur vid matlagning
[Food measures - Measures, weights, time and temperature by food
preparation].
ICA bokförlag, Västerås, Sweden 2000.
- Livsmedelsverket:
Vikttabell [Food weights].
Livsmedelsverket (National Food Administration), Uppsala 1999.
- 2001 update
- Mills A., Patel J.:
Food Portion Sizes, 2nd edition.
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
Her Majesty's Stationary Office, London 1994.
ISBN 0112429610
- Nielsen S.J., Popkin B. M.:
Patterns and Trends in Food Portion Sizes, 1977-1998.
Journal of the American Medical Association, 289(4):450-453,
2003.
- RIVM - National Institute for Public Health and the
Environment:
Portie-Online - Portion-online contains information about sizes
and weights of a large number of foods available in the
Netherlands (in Dutch)
- Sääksjärvi, K., Reinivuo, H.:
Ruokamittoja (Guide över matprotioner, in Finnish)
National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, 2004.
- U. S. Department of Agriculture:
Manual of Food Codes and Weights for Use in Household Food
Consumption Phase 1977-78 NFCS.
Human Nutrition Center, Consumer and Food Economics Institute.
U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington November 1979.
- U. S. Department of Agriculture:
Weights, Measures and Conversion Factors for Agricultural
Commodities and Their Products.
Economic Research Service, Washington, DC 20005-4788, June 1992.
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