Welcome to the FooDB food component database!

FooDB is a comprehensive database providing information on 1932 food components (eventually ~3500). The list of food components has been taken from the FDA list of everything added to food in the United States. The first stage of annotation (automated) was performed with BioSpider - a tool developed in-house. The second stage of annotation (manual) is currently underway.

FooDB has been built from the ground-up using Ruby on Rails, a free and open-source web-application framework.

Questions or corrections regarding FooDB can be submitted to Craig Knox.

Designed and tested with:

• Safari 2.0+
• Firefox 2.0+
• Internet Explorer 7.0+

This project is supported by Genome Alberta & Genome Canada, a not-for-profit organization that is leading Canada's national genomics strategy with $600 million in funding from the federal government.