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Sites With Information About Various Types of Foods

• FAO/WHO Food Standards - Codex Alimentarius
• USDA Agricultural Research Service - Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
• FDA-CFSAN Poisonous Plant Database (Plant List)
• Agriculture Network Information Center (AgNIC)
• OurFood Database of Food & Related Sciences
• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Data and Publications - Survey of Economic Plants for Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (SEPASAL): SEPASAL is a database and enquiry service about useful "wild" and semi-domesticated plants of tropical and subtropical drylands, developed and maintained at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. By "useful" we mean plants which humans eat, use as medicine, feed to animals, make things from, use as fuel, and many other uses. We focus on drier parts of the world because these are home to one sixth of the world's population, in some of the poorest countries.
• Sweet Grass Gardens - A Canadian traditional/heirloom native plant nursery, specializing in plant material that is native to North America, prior to European settlement.
• University of Maine Cooperative Extension: Facts on Edible Wild Greens in Maine
• Facts on Fiddleheads
• Flax Council of Canada
• Ontario Hemp Alliance
• Ocean Spray Ingredients Technology Group
  • Ocean Spray - Ingredients Technology Group - Cranberry Facts and Data
• The Cranberry Institute
• CoffeeResearch.org - Improving coffee quality through science and education.
• The Peanut Institute - Research arm of the U.S. Peanut Council and Peanut Bureau of Canada.
• U.S. Soyfoods Directory
• Indiana Soybean Board
• Ontario Soybean Growers
• Alberta Pork
• Beef Information Centre (Canada)
• Canadian Egg Marketing Agency
• Canadian Produce Marketing Association (CPMA)
• Canadian Sugar Institute
• Milknutrition.org
• Dairy Farmers of Canada
• Dairy Council of California - Nutrition education materials, with information on physical activity, calcium, milk, osteopororsis, prenatal nutrition, and the food pyramid, provided to health professionals and educators. Site includes lesson plans for upper elementary students.
• Oregon Dairy Council
• U.K. Society of Dairy Technology

Links to Information About Biotechnology and Functional Foods