Validation of the Italian food composition database of the European institute of oncology

Objective: To compare nutrient intakes obtained by chemical analysis of food composite or duplicate portion of diets with those obtained by weighed record method using the database of the European Institute of Oncology (EIO). Setting: Nutrition Section, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Perugia, Italy. Subjects: Fifteen subjects aged 40–59 y in 1960 (41 observations in three seasons), twenty-six subjects in 1965, and only nine...