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MRI - Department of Nutritional Behaviour (MRI-EV)
Institution
Section overview
Description
The Department of Nutritional Behaviour is dealing with the continued collection and evaluation of activities carried out alongside the food chain by different actors of the society whereas the consumer in his every day life situation is taking centre stage.
Activities
- Research
Parent institution
Max Rubner-Institut - Federal Research Institute of Nutrition and Food (MRI)
Coordinated projects
- Analysis of nutrition knowledge
- Aspects of nutritional behaviour of children with migrant background
- Capture, depict and analyze the complexity of nutritional behavior with instruments for handling complexity
- Choosing foods, eating meals; sustaining independence and quality of life in old age (SENIOR FOOD)
- Collaboration for the provision and processing of food consumption data for the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)
- Collaborative project: Development of a system for automated reduction-product monitoring for sugar, fats and salt in finished products as part of the National Reduction and Innovation Strategy - subproject C
- Collaborative project: Development of a system for automated reduction-product monitoring for sugar, fats and salt in finished products as part of the National Reduction and Innovation Strategy. Subproject C
- Complexity and transdisciplinarity in the field of nutrition
- Consumer behavior in prefabricated products - Project 1: compilation of data on the most frequently purchased industrially prefabricated products and determination of the Big 7
- Consumption of processed foods: who, when, what?
- Data Interpretation Based on the German National Nutrition Survey II (NVS II): An Integrative Analysis of Behavioral and Lifestyle-Related Factors for Organic Food Consumption
- Detailed analyses of data on nutritional behaviour from the accompanying research of the project 'Focus on school milk'
- Determinants of Diet and Physical Activity Knowledge Hub. Subproject: contribution of Populations-Germany
- Determinants of meat consumption in Germany
- EuroDISH - Study on the need for food and health research infrastructures. Subproject 7
- European Nutrition Phenotype Assessment and Data Sharing Initiative - Metadatabase for Nutritional Epidemiological Studies
- European study on consumer confidence in food - Strategy development for dealing with consumer confidence and mistrust
- Evaluation of perpetuating process of 16 model projects of the modelprogramm 'Eating better. Move more. KINDERLEICHT regions ' for prevention of overweight in children (Funding Phase 2)
- Evaluation of the prevention project: Better diet. More exercise. Kinderleicht-Regionen
- Factors of success for the development of projects in prevention and health promotion. Evaluation of the model project 'Better diet. Move more. KINDERLEICHT regions '. Making available the evaluation results for scientific experts
- Functional characterization of the human metabolome – Nutritional behaviour
- Further data preparation and analysis of the German National Nutrition Survey II
- German National Nutrition Survey III
- German Nutrient Database
- German-French nutrition network in the region 'Mittlerer Oberrhein' (InterReg IVA) (Nutrhi.net)
- Healthgrain
- Influencing Factors on the demand on subsidised milk at schools
- Initial characterization of selected plant drinks regarding their quality and microbiological as well as chemical safety
- Joint Action on implementation of validated best practices on nutrition
- Methods for a comprehensive display of food consumption using the example of buyers and non-buyers of organic food – analysis with data of the German National Nutrition Survey II
- National Nutrition Monitoring
- Nutritional behavior of vulnerable populations
- Nutritional Behaviour of vulnerable population groups
- Nutritional behaviour of vulnerable population groups
- Nutritional competences in everyday life
- Pathways to reduce food waste - Measures, evaluation frameworks and analytical tools as well as future-oriented approaches for the sustainable use of food including socio-ecological innovations
- Pilot project: Design of transformative/transformation research for future-oriented nutritional behaviour
- Product monitoring in the scope of the national reduction and innovation strategy for sugar, fats and salt in processed foods
- Providing results of the research accompanying the model project 'School Milk in Focus' on the Internet and in publications
- Recording and testing of recipes for meals with consideration of sensory quality
- Special aspects of nutritional behaviour research
- Special aspects on nutritional behavio research
- Study on the situation of catering services for employees in Germany
- Sustainable Nutrition
- The situation of elderly people at risk of poverty
Involved in research projects
- Data Interpretation Based on the German National Nutrition Survey II (NVS II): An Integrative Analysis of Behavioral and Lifestyle-Related Factors for Organic Food Consumption
- Determination of phytic acid and other inositol phosphates in foods.
- Food and gut microbiota
- Food and Gut Microbiota
- Front-of-Pack Nutrition Labelling/Nutri-Score – nutritional evaluation and consulting for the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture
- Functional characterization of the human metabolome
- Further development, update und quality management of online-database 'KLIMAPS JKI' with important facts of the consequences of climate change on plant protection. (KLIMAPS)
- gern survey: Health and nutrition survey in Germany
- OODBALL-GER: Food Biomarker Alliance. Identification and validation of biomarkers of food intake and nutritional status
- Quantification of dietary fibre contents in milled material from rye, spelt and wheat
- Quantification of selected ingredients of chocolate
- Quantification of selected ingredients of spreadable fats
- Quantification of Vitamin A and E contents in margarine
Contact
MRI - Department of Nutritional Behaviour
(MRI-EV)
Haid-und-Neu-Str. 9
76131 Karlsruhe
Baden-Württemberg
Germany
Phone: +49 721 6625 0
Fax: +49 721 6625 111
Email: ingrid.hoffmann(@)mri.bund.de