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Feasibility of Including Green Tea Products for an Analytically Verified Dietary Supplement Database
Author(s) -
Saldanha Leila,
Dwyer Johanna,
Andrews Karen,
Betz Joseph,
Harnly James,
Pehrsson Pamela,
Rimmer Catherine,
Savarala Sushma
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of food science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 150
eISSN - 1750-3841
pISSN - 0022-1147
DOI - 10.1111/1750-3841.12838
Subject(s) - dietary supplement , multivitamin , ingredient , micronutrient , food science , inclusion (mineral) , fortified food , database , medicine , business , microbiology and biotechnology , computer science , biology , chemistry , vitamin , pathology , fortification , mineralogy
The Dietary Supplement Ingredient Database (DSID) is a federally funded, publicly accessible dietary supplement database that currently contains analytically derived information on micronutrients in selected adult and children's multivitamin and mineral (MVM) supplements. Other constituents in dietary supplement products such as botanicals are also of interest and thus are being considered for inclusion in the DSID. Thirty‐eight constituents, mainly botanicals were identified and prioritized by a federal interagency committee. Green tea was selected from this list as the botanical for expansion of the DSID. This article describes the process for prioritizing dietary ingredients in the DSID. It also discusses the criteria for inclusion of these ingredients, and the approach for selecting and testing products for the green tea pilot study.