Food conversions¶
Food conversions relate foods-as-eaten, as found in the consumption data, to foods-as-measured, which are the foods for which concentration data are available. A food-as-eaten can be linked to one, or multiple food-as-measured using various conversion steps (e.g., using food recipes to translate a composite food to its ingredients, or using processing information to relate a processed food to its unprocessed form). There are several types of conversion steps, and a conversion path may comprise multiple conversion steps between a food-as-eaten and a food-as-measured.
This module has as primary entities: Foods Substances
Output of this module is used by: Consumptions by food as measured
Calculation of food conversions¶
Settings for Food conversion: For steps 2-7: Include in conversion: yes/no; Include foods with only non-detect measurements: yes/no; nclude substances with only non-detect measurements: yes/no.
Inputs used: Consumptions Foods as measured Processing factors Food recipes Market shares Food extrapolations Total diet study sample compositions Active substances
Settings used