INFOODS: Food Component Identifiers (Tagnames)

This list of INFOODS Food Component Tagnames has been prepared from John C. Klensin, Diane Feskanich, Victor Lin, A. Stewart Truswell, David A. T. Southgate, Identification of Food Components for INFOODS Data Interchange, Tokyo: United Nations University, 1989.

The list was updated as new tags are assigned or definitions are clarified until 2007.

AAA ..... ENER- ( aromatic amino acids to energy)

ERGCAL... FATRN ( ergocalciferol to trans fatty acids)

FD ........PRO ( fluoride to proline)

PROA ......ZN ( total protein to zinc)

AAAN .... VALP (Derived food components)

New tagnames since 2007

130 new tagnames are proposed to be added to the existing tagnames (COMING SOON)

Coming soon: consolidated list of all tagnames (excel format)

156 new tagnames were added to the existing tagnames (April 2010).

142 new tagnames were added to the existing tagnames (October 2008)

Reports

View the report of the 2003 Consultation on Review and Revision of Tagnames
Report of the pre-conference meeting between EuroFIR and INFOODS on component nomenclature held in Bangkok, Thailand, on 30 September 2009
Report of the post-conference meeting between EuroFIR and INFOODS on component nomenclature held in Norwich, United Kingdom, on 17 September 2011. (Background documents: Powerpoint Presentation by Ian Unwin)
Report on the Technical meeting on attributing AOAC methods to INFOODS tagnames, 2013, Granada

Tagnames for Food Components