The Pacific Islands food composition tables
By: Cecily Dignan, Barbara Burlingame, Shailesh Kumar, William Aalbersberg.
Contributors: Dignan, C. A.; Burlingame, B. A.; Kumar, Shailesh.; Aalbersberg, William.; Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.; University of the South Pacific.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Rome
Language: eng
Number of pages: 135
Subjects: Food -- Composition -- Tables.; Nutrition -- Oceania -- Tables.
Genres: Tables.
Description: Traditional Pacific Island diets were diverse and nutritionally appropriate. In recent decades Pacific Islanders have experienced many changes in lifestyle and diet. Most of the dietary changes have not been for the better, and have contributed to the burden of malnutrition throughout the Pacific. The vast natural biodiversity of food plants and animals represent an asset that is sadly neglected. Food composition activities provide a focus on the nutrient content of individual cultivars, wild and cultivated, that will add to the impetus to preserve its rich diversity for the food security of the region. The food composition data presented in this document are fundamental to food trade, agriculture policy development, nutrition education, and the setting/achieving of nutrition goals and guidelines.
Notes: "The second edition relies on the bulk of work prepared for the first edition, largely by Cecily Dignan and Barbara Burlingame as the original project initiators. Credit for the new analytical work and compilation goes to Shailesh Kumar [et al.] ... with inputs and project oversight from Bill Aalbersberg and Barbara Burlingame"--P. v.

"The University of the South Pacific"--Cover.

"TC/M/Y5432E/1/07.04/1300"--P. [4] of cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p. xiv-xvii) and index.