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nelfood.com grew out of the Physical Properties of Food DataBase project.
This project was initiated to collect and make available on the internet reliable and useful data on Physical Properties of Foods.
The project was part funded by the EU, received commercial sponsership from Nestle, RHM and Unilever, was managed by Dr Paul Nesvadba, and the internet work was done by NEL.
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Experiment Details Table Help

This form is used to enter the experiment details information for the article containing the food properties. This form is primarily made up from Table 3 of the Proforma for Data Entry to Database of Physical Properties of Foods version 6.1. The additional information requested is from Table 8 of the proforma.

This table is used for both 'in-house' measurements and for 'literature' measurements. For the 'literature' data some fields are not required.

Project ID This allows an additional method of collating experimental data. At present this feature is not implemented.
Name of Measured Physical Property This is the name of the physical property being reported.
Operator of Experiment The name of the operator that performed the experiment.
Contact Person The name of the person who should be asked for permission to use the data.
Location of Experiment Location of where the experiment was performed. This need not be the full postal address.
Date of Experiment Date that the experiment was performed. This should be in a yyyy/mm/dd format, e.g., 1999/09/13.
Note: At present the dates are displayed in the American mm/dd/yy format.
Measurement Technique The name of the measurement technique that was used for the experiment, e.g., Rotational viscometry
Quality Supply the combination of letter and number referring to the quality of description of food (letter) and quality of numerical data (number). Click here for the character criteria. Very often the combination of C3 or D3 will arise. Only one combination is allowed to be input. This data is the Overall quality index field from Table 8 of the v6.1 proforma.
Accuracy of Measurement The maximum deviation from a reference value for the given material in % of mean value. This field exists in two parts. The first is a numeric only field - symbols such as <,> etc. are not permitted. Use this field if an exact accuracy is reported. If a range of accuracies are reported use the second text field as this field will accept numbers and text including <,> etc.
Precision of Measurement The relative standard error of the mean value (%). This field exists in two parts. The first is a numeric only field - symbols such as <,> etc. are not permitted. Use this field if an exact precision is reported. If a range of accuracies are reported use the second text field as this field will accept numbers and text including <,> etc.
Comments All additional relevant remarks and details on both the measurement and the quality value should be entered here. Comments should include opinions regarding the data quality especially if the data has been taken from a compendium.
Equation If an equation has been given to describe the reported properties then it should be recorded here. Any symbols or derived terms should be explained. Any dependent unit sets shuld also be identified.
Equation Range The range of validity of any equation reported should be entered here.
 
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