I’ve been poking around the government nutrition sites and found a lot of interesting information. I sent away for some of it for the members of E4T Live! But one of the tools I found won’t work for them.
The USDA has an incredible set of Nutrition tools:
USDA Nutrient Data Laboratory
Nutrient Data Laboratory, ARS, USDA Provides access to the USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference Release 18 (SR18) which includes nutrient content of 7,146 different foods. Includes an online nutrient database search.
And . . .
Search Programs for USDA Food Composition Databases
Use these programs without being connected to the Internet
Windows PC
Downloads for the USDA National Nutrient Database for use on Windows 98SE® and above, download – Now available for SR18:
User’s guide – guide to downloading and using the Windows® program
pcs18.exe – click link to begin download
(Note: File is ~9.3Mb and will take about 1 minutes to download using a broadband connection and about 20 minutes using a 56Kb Modem with a dial-up connection. Windows 2000 and XP users must have administrator rights to install the application.)Handheld Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs)
Downloads for the USDA National Nutrient Database for use on Palm OS® PDAs – Now available for SR18:
User’s guide – guide to downloading and using the PDA program
Click link to begin downloadpda18.exe – (for Windows PC’s)
(Note: Program will take about 2Mb on your PDA)pda18.zip – (compressed file)
pda18.sit – (compressed file for use with a Mac)
For questions about using the software, please e-mail: ndlapps@rbhnrc.usda.gov
Please indicate in the subject line which application your e-mail pertains to.
I’ve loaded the Palm Pilot database and it works great. That’s what I used to look up the calories in saltines.
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I’ve used this for years…but some of their descriptions of the food, like chicken (thigh, usable without skin and bone) kinda put me off my feed.