nutrients Article eBASIS (Bioactive Substances in Food Information Systems) and Bioactive Intakes: Major Updates of the Bioactive Compound Composition and Beneficial Bioeffects Database and the Development of a Probabilistic Model to Assess Intakes in Europe Jenny Plumb 1,*, Sandrine Pigat 2, Foteini Bompola 2, Maeve Cushen 2, Hannah Pinchen 1, Eric Nørby 3, Siân Astley 4, Jacqueline Lyons 5, Mairead Kiely 5 and Paul Finglas 1 1 Institute of Food Research, Norwich NR4 7UA, UK;
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[email protected]; Tel.: +44-1603-255325 Received: 6 February 2017; Accepted: 17 March 2017; Published: 23 March 2017 Abstract: eBASIS (Bioactive Substances in Food Information Systems), a web-based database that contains compositional and biological effects data for bioactive compounds of plant origin, has been updated with new data on fruits and vegetables, wheat and, due to some evidence of potential beneficial effects, extended to include meat bioactives. eBASIS remains one of only a handful of comprehensive and searchable databases, with up-to-date coherent and validated scientific information on the composition of food bioactives and their putative health benefits.