Food Facts

Written by admin@pcpierce.com on January 22, 2013. Posted in Menu Planning

FoodFacts.com offers searchable information about specific foods and their ingredients, with free information provided to consumers. The site provides detailed information on over 12,000 common and not so common food ingredients. Foods, ingredients, chemical substances and additives can be searched by a number of common and easy to find search parameters. With FoodFacts.com, consumers can easily identify those ingredients they’d like to avoid and those they’d like to include more of in their diet. Food allergies like peanut, egg, dairy, soy and gluten no longer need to be hidden in their food ingredients. They’re easily identifiable, along with sugar, fat, calorie, protein and carbohydrate content. FoodFacts.com makes it easy to follow any diet or incorporate healthy food, healthy recipes and healthy eating into any lifestyle.

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Nutrient Values of Foods

Written by admin@pcpierce.com on July 1, 2011. Posted in Menu Planning

Looking for nutrition information on nutrients in foods? Great website for menu planning.

Nutrition Data’s database

The information in Nutrition Data’s database comes from the USDA’s National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference and is supplemented by listings provided by restaurants and food manufacturers. The source for each individual food item is listed in the footnotes of that food’s Nutrition Facts page. In addition to food composition data, Nutrition Data also provides a variety of proprietary tools to analyze and interpret that data. These interpretations represent Nutrition Data’s opinion and are based on calculations derived from Daily Reference Values (DRVs), Reference Daily Intakes (RDIs), published research, and recommendations of the FDA.

Food Sources of Selected Nutrients 

 

USDA – The Mission of the Nutrient Data Laboratory is “To develop authoritative food composition databases and state of the art methods to acquire, evaluate, compile and disseminate composition data on foods and dietary supplements available in the United States.”

This directory contains reports of selected food items and nutrients in SR23.  These reports are sorted either by food description or in descending order by nutrient content in terms of common household measures.  The food items and weights in these reports are adapted from those in 2002 revision of Home and Garden Bulletin No. 72, Nutritive Value of Foods.

Find which foods are highest in specific nutrients.

Search the USDA National Nutrient Database

Search individual foods for nutrient values.

Download the USDA Nutrient Database

This page provides access to Release 23 of the USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference. You can either view the data here or download the data files and documentation in several different formats for use on your computer. An online search is also provided so you can look up the nutrient content of 7,538 different foods directly from this home page.  Search programs for the PC and PDA are also available.