By Liezhou Zhong; 26 March 2025
The whole Nitrate, Nitrite and Nitrosamine Database (Nitr-Navigator) food table contains all unique food items in the database. The "common food name" column are cleaned food names as described in the plant-based nitrate database paper (2022, foodchem), while animal foods, particularly sausages, are grouped based on their processing and preservation methods (See animal food nitrate nitrite database paper; mnfr, 2022).
The search function enables wildcard search across the entire table (e.g., 'lett' for all lettuce) and is case-insensitive. However, many composite food names are not modified and being presented as in data sources.
| Common food name | Botanic family | Botanic family common name | Latin name or full name | Other names or food examples | Food category |
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Note:
We harmonised plant-based food names with based on FoodEx2 (revision 2) and information in CatalogueBrowser EFSA, Wikipedia, USDA Plants Database and other botanic databases.
This table will be updated and cleaned regularly.
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