AFSI Releases Updates on the Crop Composition Database
March 4, 2026| |
The Agriculture and Food Systems Institute (AFSI) released a report about the updated Crop Composition Database (CCDB) published in the Journal of Food Composition Analysis.
According to the article, CCDB is a publicly available resource of composition data with applications in comparative compositional assessment of genetically modified crops, informing healthy diets for livestock, and improving knowledge of global datasets related to food security and overall nutrition.
The salient feature of CCDB Version 10.1. includes the following:
- provides a comprehensive composition data for 18 conventionally-bred food, feed, fiber, and tree crops
- contains over 1.5 million data points across 232 analytes from field trial samples in 19 countries over 27 years.
- provides context for variability in composition components in conventional crops.
- useful for comparative compositional assessment of GM crops, informs healthy diets for livestock, and improves knowledge of global datasets related to food security and overall nutrition.
Read the report in the Journal of Food Composition Analysis.
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