Why was the Dietary Supplement Ingredient Database created?
The Dietary Supplement Ingredient Database (DSID) was created to: a) develop reliable estimates of ingredients and other bioactive components in dietary supplement (DS) products; (b) support improved dietary intake assessments in research by providing analytical estimates of the ingredient content of marketed dietary supplements; (c) report on analyzed levels of ingredients relative to labeled values; and (d) release and maintain a publicly available on-line composition database. By using data in the DSID, analytically-based estimates of nutrient content of adult multivitamin/minerals (MVMs) can be combined with supplement intake records to estimate total nutrient intake from food plus supplements. These estimates can assist researchers to make more accurate quantitative intake assessments and evaluate the nutritional status of Americans.
