The USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference (renamed in 2019 to FoodData Central) is a database produced by the
United States Department of Agriculture
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is an executive department of the United States federal government that aims to meet the needs of commercial farming and livestock food production, promotes agricultural trade and producti ...
that provides the nutritional content of many generic and proprietary-branded foods. Released in August 2015 and revised every two years, the database contains data on several thousand foods and dozens of components in foods, including
macronutrient
A nutrient is a substance used by an organism to survive, grow and reproduce. The requirement for dietary nutrient intake applies to animals, plants, fungi and protists. Nutrients can be incorporated into cells for metabolic purposes or excret ...
s and
micronutrient
Micronutrients are essential chemicals required by organisms in small quantities to perform various biogeochemical processes and regulate physiological functions of cells and organs. By enabling these processes, micronutrients support the heal ...
s.
New releases occur every two years. The database may be searched online, queried through a
representational state transfer
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API
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, or downloaded.
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FoodData Central includes five data types: Foundation Foods, Experimental Foods, Legacy Foods ("SR Legacy"), Food and Nutrient Database for Dietary Studies 2021-2023 (FNDDS 2021-2023), and the USDA Global Branded Food Products Database (Branded Foods).][
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FoodData Central
FoodData Central is USDA's integrated data system that contains five types of data containing information on food and nutrient profiles:
* Standard Reference, using earlier approaches to determining nutrient profiles of foods in the marketplace, provides a comprehensive list of values for nutrients and food components that are derived from calculations and analyses.
* Foundation Foods includes nutrient values as well as extensive underlying metadata on commercially available foods.
* Experimental Foods currently links to relevant agricultural research data from multiple sources, such as the Agricultural Collaborative Research Outcomes System (AgCROS).
* Food and Nutrient Database for Dietary Studies (FNDDS) provides nutrient values for the foods and beverages reported in What We Eat in America, the dietary intake component of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) is a survey research program conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) to assess the health and nutritional status of adults and children in the United States, and ...
(NHANES).
* The USDA Global Branded Food Products Database contains nutrient data that appear on branded and private label foods provided by the food industry, from ILSI, GS1 US, 1WorldSync, Label Insight, and University of Maryland
The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland, United States. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the Univ ...
's Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition.[
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References
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External links
USDA FoodData Central
Nutrition
Food and drink in the United States
National Nutrient Database
Online databases
Scientific databases
Projects established in 2015
2015 in the United States
National Nutrient Database