FAITH DIETS- A Bible Believer's Diet
FOOD COMPOSITION
List of food tables, food composition organizations and journals
Searching USDA food tables
Other food tables and food data
Other food composition issues
List of food tables, food composition organizations and journals
Food Composition: International Food Composition Directory
http://www.fao.org/infoods/directory_en.stm
Listing of national food composition table efforts, with information on their availability. In some cases this is just in hard copy form, on others as an on-line resource.
Nutrient Data Laboratory
http://www.ars.usda.gov/main/site_main.htm?modecode=12354500
Entry point for learning about the Nutrient Data Laboratory, getting the news on its activities and searching the USDA food tables
Food Composition Home Pages
http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/other_jmp.html
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Searching USDA Food Tables
USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, Release 18 Calcium, ca (mg) Content of selected foods for common measure
Download: Calcium Content of Food.pdf
USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, Release 18 Energy, (Kcal) Content of selected foods for common measure
Download: Calorie content of selected food.pdf
USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, Release 18 Total Lipid (fat) (g) Content of selected foods for common measure
Download: Fat lipid content of selected food.pdf
USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, Release 18 Protein (g) Content of selected foods for common measure
Download: Protein content of selected food.pdf
USDA Nutritive Values of Food Nutritive Values of Food
Download: Nutritive Values of Food.pdf
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Other food tables and food data
Fast Food Content Calculator: Cyberdiet
http://www.cyberdiet.com/reg/ffq/
Returns information on food alternatives within specified types of food within the major fast food chains, within constraints that you enter regarding desired energy and macronutrient percentage content.
Canned Food Nutrient Content
http://www.cannedfood.org/
Graphic display of nutrient content of a small number of canned foods
Food Databases @ Internets
http://www.internets.com/sfood.htm
Links to food and food composition data bases.
Fruit and Vegetable nutrition content
http://www.dole5aday.com/ReferenceCenter/NutritionCenter/Chart
Nutritional content of a range of fruits and vegetables for a limited range of nutrients (macronutrients, vitamins A and C, calcium and iron, sodium and potassium). There is an interactive option that allows you to arrange the data in order of your own preference (e.g. by vitamin A content, by weight etc.
Insect Nutritional Table
http://www.ent.iastate.edu/Misc/insectnutrition.html
Just what the title says, although there are less an a dozen insects whose nutrient content is shown, with some normal foods for comparison.
McDonald's food content information
http://www.mcspotlight.org/company/publications/nutrition_table
Information on composition of MacDonalds products, including nutrients, allergens, food exchanges etc.
Nutrition Analysis Tool
http://www.ag.uiuc.edu/~food-lab/nat/
On-line dietary nutrient analysis. A little awkward because of delays in web exchange, as food choices and quantities move to and fro.
Food Database
http://nutrition.getschooled.com/gather/cgi-bin/wookie.cgi/database/
This is something special. Put together by students from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (in Virginia, USA), an enormous amount of work, ingenuity and programming flare has gone into producing a site offering resources to encourage healthy eating.
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Other Food Composition Issues
INFOODS International Food Composition Tables Directory
http://www.fao.org/infoods/directory_en.stm
An international listing of food composition tables and their availability (some in hard copy form, some with links to on-line resources).
LANGUAL
http://www.langual.org/
"LANGUAL is an international, descriptive language for foods, based on the principle of a faceted thesaurus, where each food indexed is described by a set of standard terms grouped in facets." The web site (hosted by the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration) has background information, the food thesaurus, software for its management and links to related sites, including a list of links to other national food data bases, some of which are on-line.
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