The food composition community provides the world with food composition tables that are critically essential for research on nutrition and allied subjects. The International Food Data Conference (IFDC) is the official INFOODS conference held every two years at different locations around the world since 1993 with the last one being held in Granada, Spain in September 2013. The IFDC is the only major global event and the largest regular conference of the global food composition research community with the key aim of linking researchers generating, compiling and utilizing food composition data.The 11th IFDC will be held at the National Institute of Nutrition (NIN), Hyderabad, India from 3 - 5th November, 2015 with the theme “Food Composition and Public Health Nutrition”. The conference will involve key note lectures and presentations on food composition and public health nutrition. The 11th IFDC will provide the platform for top scientists and researchers from all over the world to present and discuss the latest scientific breakthroughs on food composition and nutrition.