Affiliations: Study Group on Functional Food Factors, Department of
Nutrition Science, Faculty of Applied Bioscience, Tokyo University of
Agriculture, 1-1-1 Sakuragaoka Setagaya, Tokyo 156-8502, Japan
Abstract: In food, other than known nutrients, such as lipid, carbohydrate,
protein, vitamins, and minerals, many substances with physiological function
and medicinal action exist, and it is contributing to healthy improvement
and/or prevention of illness. Although carotenoid, flavonoid and polyphenol,
terpenoid, volatile substance and sulfur compounds, peptide, etc. have the
function of illness prevention, and research of those non-nutrient functional
food factors (FFF) became globally active, the research of this field is not
yet done systematically. We evaluate function of FFF and reappraise known
knowledge, and this knowledge is standardized and accumulated, aimed at
building a web database server-client system which is easy to use for the
people and nutritional research. We also collected related data such as
chemical characters of FFF from literatures and other source, and formatted
them into the database. We constructed the web database server-client system
with MySQL database server and Apache web server based on Linux, and used
Tomcat JSP engine for data connecting since they were reliable in stability and
speed. We are opening the database at http://www.life-science.jp/FFF for test
now.
Keywords: functional food factors, database, server-client, MySQL, JSP, linux
Journal: BioFactors, vol. 22, no. 1-4, pp. 329-332, 2004
