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Some Key Sources for Nutrient Data

 

Scientific information sources used by ESHA Research for their world-renowned nutrient database.

• INFOODS - The International Network of Food Data Systems
  • FAO - Global Regional Food Composition Data Centres Directory
• USDA Web Sites
  • Food Surveys Research Group (FSRG) - "What's In The Foods You Eat-Search Tool"
  • 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
        • International Nutrient Databank Directory - A PDF version of a directory distributed to attendees of the 28th National Nutrient Databank Conference in Iowa City, June 23-26, 2004. It is intended to assist potential users in determining which combination of program and database might best meet their needs.  It will also be a resource for students and others who want to learn about and compare selected database and software features.
      • 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
      • FNIC - Food Composition Resource List for Professionals (May 2001)
      • FNIC - Dietary Supplements - Additional Resources for Professionals (July 2005)
  • USDA Agricultural Research Service - Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
  • Agriculture Network Information Center (AgNIC)
• Health Canada Nutrition Research Division: Canadian Nutrient File
• Mexico's Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion Salvador Zubiran
• 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.
• Greek Food Composition Tables (Analytical Data From University of Crete Medical School)
• New Zealand Crop & Food Research - Nutrition and Health Tools
• 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
• 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
• Caffeine Content of Foods and Drugs