AFiOS 2.0 · 10.x Provenance
Every ingredient row in the AFiOS database can be traced to a named African or international research body. Numbers without explicit sources are curated working values pending source attribution.
Food Research Institute — Council for Scientific & Industrial Research
CSIR — Food Research Institute (Accra, Ghana). Indigenous food composition, fermentation and processing research programmes.
https://foodresearchgh.orgCrops Research Institute — CSIR
CSIR — Crops Research Institute (Kumasi, Ghana). Cultivar agronomy and nutrient profiling of cassava, yam, plantain, maize, cowpea and indigenous vegetables.
https://cropsresearch.orgNoguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana
Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana. Nutrition & metabolic disease research, glycemic response studies of West African staples.
https://noguchimedres.orgUSDA FoodData Central
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. FoodData Central — reference nutrient values for foods including African staples.
https://fdc.nal.usda.govFAO / INFOODS — West African Food Composition Table
Stadlmayr, B. et al. (FAO/INFOODS, 2012). West African Food Composition Table. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
https://www.fao.org/infoods/infoods/tables-and-databases/africa/en/MRC Epidemiology Unit — NutriTools / Cambridge
Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge. Dietary assessment and African nutrition cohort research (incl. AWI-Gen, H3Africa collaborations).
https://www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.ukTufts Friedman School & Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health — African Nutrition Research
Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy; Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. African food systems, micronutrient & metabolic health research programmes.
https://nutrition.tufts.eduCitations follow the AFiOS data-provenance standard. Where a row cites multiple institutes, values are cross-referenced. AFiOS does not reproduce proprietary tables — institute URLs link to the original databases.