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Sites About Nutrient Analysis (Including Links to Food Composition Analysis Labs and Biotech and Functional Food Sites)

• Professional Nutrient Analysis Webring Homepage
• MangoLogic (an Exponent company) - Services include food product health claim development and substantiation, data mining and management, food product and nutrition marketing research, and more.
• Association of Analytical Communities (AOAC) International - The cornerstone for online analytical methods.
• Guelph Food Technology Centre - Confidential, creative solutions for the food industry.
• Institute of Food Science & Technology (IFST)
  • Institute of Food Science & Technology Information Statement on Phytosterol Esters
• USDA Food and Nutrition Information Center (FNIC)
• FNIC "Food Composition Topic Page" - Links to many different online resources.
  • USDA Nutrient Data Laboratory Food Composition Data
  • USDA-Iowa State University Database on the Isoflavone Content of Foods
  • National Nutrient Databank Conference Homepage
  • Nutrient Data Laboratory - Food Composition Products
  • USDA Nutrient Data Laboratory - Food Composition Classic References (includes a link to freely downloadable PDF copy of the 1975 reference, "Agriculture Handbook No. 102, Food Yields Summarized by Different Stages of Preparation"
  • USDA Table of Nutrient Retention Factors
  • Historical Information Topic Page
• USDA Agricultural Research Service - Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
• Agriculture Network Information Center (AgNIC)
• Nutrition Analysis Tool (NAT) - Tools for good health developed as a public service by the Food Science and Human Nutrition Department at the University of Illinois.
• ChefDesk.com "Book of Yields" order page.
• Colorado AES Project COL00287 - 1999-2000: Nutrient Bioavailability - A Key to Human Nutrition
• Health Canada Nutrition Research Division: Canadian Nutrient File
• Mexico's Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion Salvador Zubiran
• INFOODS - United Nations University International Food Data Systems Project
• OurFood Database of Food & Related Sciences
  • Download OurFood Database
• 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.
• German Online Nutrient Database
• U.K. Department of Health
  • U.K. - The theoretical basis for Dietary Reference Values (DRVs), and their practical uses.
  • UK Reference Nutrient Intakes (RNI), 1991
• Australian Guide to Healthy Eating
• ANZFA (Australia New Zealand Food Authority)
• New Zealand Food Composition Database - Crop and Food Research
• Singapore Health Promotion Board's Online Food Info Search
• nutriWEB Malaysia - Searchable online food database.
• The University of Minnesota's Nutrition Data System/Nutrition Coordinating Center
• Journal of Food Composition and Analysis
• University of Maine Cooperative Extension: Facts on Edible Wild Greens in Maine
• Facts on Fiddleheads
• Native Seeds-SEARCH - Ancient Seeds for Modern Needs
• How Much Is a Serving? - A Parent's Guide for Children Ages 1 to 5, by the University of Maine Cooperative Extension.
• Food FAQs - Substitutions, Yields and Equivalents Reference Book
• Online Conversion - Convert anything to anything else.
• Volume Conversion
• Weight Conversion
• Temperature Conversion
• Cooking Conversions
• dietsite.com - Online Diet and Recipe Analysis
• The Food Consulting Company - Your source for expert nutrition analysis, nutrition facts panel, recipe analysis, restaurant menu analysis, food label review, FDA and USDA food labeling and regulatory compliance.
• Nutrient Analysis (by nutritionresources.com)
• Nutrition News Focus: Body Mass Index Chart
• HealthCheck Systems: Online BMI calculator.
• HealthStatus.Com - Online health resource, books, health risk assessment
• BMI Calculator Body Mass Index - HealthStatus.Com
• Health·Zone
• Fast Food Facts Interactive Food Finder - An American nutritional database designed to look up nutritional analysis info of fast food.
• Chart of the Vitamin K content of common foods
• Ocean Spray Ingredients Technology Group
  • Ocean Spray - Ingredients Technology Group - Cranberry Facts and Data
• Caffeine Content of Foods and Drugs
• CoffeeResearch.org - Improving coffee quality through science and education.

• Links to Food Analysis Labs (from the site of Jean Fremont, RD).
• FoodQuality.com's Guide to Products and Services - Contract Laboratory Services
• Brunswick Labs.
• Maxxam Analytics.
• Silliker Labs - A leading international network of testing and consulting laboratories.  Specializes in helping manufacturers, restaurants, and retailers in the food and feed industries. Silliker is the largest network of ISO 25 accredited labs in North America, with operations throughout Europe and Australia.

Biotechnology and Functional Food Sites

• Nat'l Academy Press, Genetically Modified Pest-Protected Plants: (2000), Table of Contents
• Biotech Primer
• BioMedNet News: Genetically Modified Foods - A Site Map of the Debate
• Transgenic Crops: An Introduction and Resource Guide (From Colorado State University).
• "Elements of Precaution: Recommendations for

the Regulation of Food Biotechnology in Canada." -  A report released in February 2001 by The Royal Society of Canada (in PDF format).

• Modern Food Biotechnology - Information provided by Dietitians of Canada for frequently asked questions by Canadian consumers (this is a PDF file).
• Modern Food Biotechnology: Principles and Perspectives (information for professionals provided by Dietitians of Canada - access charge applies for non-members of Dietitians of Canada).
• Investigation of Human Health Effects Associated with Potential Exposure to Genetically Modified Corn - Study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (in PDF format).
• Proceedings of 1997 International Conference on Agricultural Production and Nutrition (Tufts University)
• Proceedings of 1997 International Conference on Regulatory Issues of Crop Production (Tufts University)
• Functional Foods for Health - Functional Foods for Health (FFH), a joint program of the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is dedicated to the improvement of human health and the reduction of health care costs through research and education related to the identification of food components and the development of food products which have disease-preventative and health promoting benefits.
• Paracelsian - Paracelsian is a unique biotechnology company that develops and applies "functional" bioassays as a tool for identifying, screening, and developing products for the dietary supplement, pharmaceutical, functional food, and environmental management industries.