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Research Project: USDA National Nutrient Databank for Food Composition

Location: Methods and Application of Food Composition Laboratory

Title: Opportunities and challenges in using NIH’s dietary supplement label database for research on ingredients in honeybee products

Author
item DURAZZO, ALESSANDRA - Crea-Research Centre For Vegetable And Ornamental Crops
item LUCARINI, MASSIMO - Crea-Research Centre For Vegetable And Ornamental Crops
item DWYER, JOHANNA - National Institutes Of Health (NIH)
item SORKIN, BARBARA - National Institutes Of Health (NIH)
item HEINRICH, MICHAEL - Ucl Great Ormond Street Institute Of Child Health
item Pehrsson, Pamela

Submitted to: PharmaNutrition
Publication Type: Review Article
Publication Acceptance Date: 1/20/2024
Publication Date: 1/20/2024
Citation: Durazzo, A., Lucarini, M., Dwyer, J.T., Sorkin, B.C., Heinrich, M., Pehrsson, P.R. 2024. Opportunities and challenges in using NIH’s dietary supplement label database for research on ingredients in honeybee products. PharmaNutrition. 27:100377. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phanu.2024.100377.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phanu.2024.100377

Interpretive Summary: Honeybee products or ingredients in them such as honey, propolis, bee pollen, royal jelly, beeswax, and bee venom have been used in are now used as dietary supplements as well as foods and in traditional medicines for centuries worldwide, and are now also appearing in dietary supplements. This article describes the DSLD and other US databases containing honeybee ingredients in dietary supplements, the composition of these ingredients composition and how researchers using ontologies such as LanguaLTM or FoodEx2 might code those ingredients. The National Institute of Health’s Dietary Supplement Label Database (DSLD) contains over 165,000 labels of dietary supplements marketed in the United States of America. This article describes ingredients in them that are of particular interest to researchers and regulators. The prevalence of products containing these ingredients (e.g., honey, propolis, bee pollen, royal jelly, beeswax, and bee venom) on the US market is low compared to other types of dietary supplements, but they are still of interest to researchers and regulators because of the health claims they make. The.A case study is provided using the example of bee product ingredients. This use case study provided illustrates how the DSLD was used to identify and scr

Technical Abstract: Abstract: Honeybee products or ingredients in them such as honey, propolis, bee pollen, royal jelly, beeswax, and bee venom have been used in are now used as dietary supplements as well as foods and in traditional medicines for centuries worldwide, and are now also appearing in dietary supplements. This article describes the DSLD and other US databases containing honeybee ingredients in dietary supplements, the composition of these ingredients composition and how researchers using ontologies such as LanguaLTM or FoodEx2 might code those ingredients. The National Institute of Health’s Dietary Supplement Label Database (DSLD) contains over 165,000 labels of dietary supplements marketed in the United States of America. This article describes ingredients in them that are of particular interest to researchers and regulators. The prevalence of products containing these ingredients (e.g., honey, propolis, bee pollen, royal jelly, beeswax, and bee venom) on the US market is low compared to other types of dietary supplements, but they are still of interest to researchers and regulators because of the health claims they make. The.A case study is provided using the example of bee product ingredients. This use case study provided illustrates how the DSLD was used to identify and screen for specific honeybee ingredients (e.g., honey, propolis, bee pollen, royal jelly, beeswax, and bee venom) that make health claims in dietary supplements. The prevalence of products containing these ingredients on the US market is low compared to other types of dietary supplements. While it is possible to search for and establish the presence of each honeybee ingredient in supplements, amounts in products are rarely declared on the labels, and there is no assurance that those amounts are truly present.