Calculate the Calories and Vitamins of Your Meals: What is "TÜRKOMP"?
It is a study where you can access the nutrient elements such as protein, fat, carbohydrate, vitamin, mineral, and calorie values of foods produced and consumed in Turkey via the internet.
How?
You can easily calculate the calorie values of your meals. Supported by TÜBİTAK and created in cooperation with the Republic of Turkey Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock and the Republic of Turkey Ministry of Health, the NATIONAL FOOD COMPOSITION DATABASE "TÜRKOMP" allows searches to be made according to food, component, and nutrition.
Two different foods can be compared on the same screen in terms of their components and can be sorted from highest to lowest. With the "Nutrition bag," the total daily values of energy and nutrients such as protein, carbohydrate, and fat can be easily calculated.
Includes Traditional Foods as Well
Within the traditional food group, 116 traditional production methods belonging to 53 foods such as Turkish delight, sausage, tarhana have been addressed (e.g., Erzincan tulum cheese, Çorum roasted chickpeas, Silifke yogurt), and food composition data for these have been obtained, preparing "traditional food draft registration files."
Why?
It serves as a national data source with goals such as contributing to education, research, production, investment, legislation, and menu planning in many fields like agriculture, food, nutrition, and health; preparing nutrition programs to be applied in special cases; increasing public awareness about nutrition; eliminating foreign dependency in the use of food component data; and protecting our traditional foods on a national platform through the registration of traditional foods.
Note: TÜRKOMP is available free of charge to users at http://www.turkomp.gov.tr.
Source: The websites www.turkomp.gov.tr, www.tarim.gov.tr, and www.mam.tubitak.gov.tr.