Nutrition Facts
Analyzer
NutritionData.com |
The
quickest way to find out what's good and bad about the foods you eat. This
site maintains a larger food database than the USDA, includes information on fast foods
and food additives, and provides some useful tools for analyzing your diet. |
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NUTRIENTS IN FOODS
- California Avocado
Commission Official site of the California Avocado Commission. Guacamole and other
recipes, nutrition, games, grower information, and more Avocado information than you knew
existed. Discover the Hass, Bacon, Fuerte, Gwen, Pinkerton, Reed, and Zutano varieties.
- California
Strawberry Commission Official home of the California strawberry providing invaluable
resources including recipes, desserts, nutritional information, consumer news, grower
news, celebrity chef interviews, farm tours, contests, prizes, and trade information.
- Chromium
Information Bureau Independent information resource for nutrition researchers, health
care providers, media, and interested members of the public on the role of chromium in
nutrition.
- CLA: Conjugated Linoleic
Acid in Meat and Milk A good review of the known antioxidant qualities and still
unanswered questions.
- Conjugated
Linoleic Acids Information from the University of Wisconsin detailing research papers
on this subject. A PDF file of research summaries is available for download.
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- Egg Nutrition Center
Scientific information for nutritionists and health care providers to learn about eggs and
good nutrition. Has list of research and scientific studies done an eggs online.
- Fish
Oils Summaries of the latest research on the health benefits of the omega-3 contentof
fish oils.
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- How Stuff
Works: How Food Works Eight detailed segments describe food, carbohydrates, proteins,
fats, vitamins, minerals, water, and the meaning of hunger. Helps you understand a
nutrition label on your groceries.
- Loders Croklaan
Lipid Nutrition Supplies products resulting from an intensive lipid research program
dedicated to delivering lipid ingredients with proven health benefits from natural
sources.
- Lutein - The Vision
Carotenoid Simple and clear information on role of lutein, a plant carotenoid
deficient in most western diets, in vision, especially the prevention of 'age-related
macular degeneration', as well as overall health, from the 'Lutein Information Bureau' in
USA.
- Natural Food: Fruit
Discusses how we came to be eating the small range of fruits we now eat, and the relative
nutritional and protective strengths of commercially available fruit.
- Natural Food:
Grains Beans and Seeds Covers legumes and seeds and their role in the human diet
through human evolution. Focuses on the legume, grain, and seed species worldwide, and is
particularly relevant to the legume/grain debate in reference to human biochemistry.
- Natural Food:
Vegetables A discussion of the nutritional values of vegetables during human evolution
and today; including the importance of tubers, roots, corms, rhizomes and bulbs during
evolution. Extensive notes on wild African, Asian, and European edible plants.
- Nutrient
Data Laboratory Food Composition Data Downloadable data sets prepared by the USDA
Nutrient Data Laboratory with nutrient values of foods.
- Nutrition Facts Labels
Develops nutrition information for labels which meet Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
and US Department of Agriculture (USDA), Canadian and European Union (EU) standards.
- Pecans,
Nutritional Content. Fat profile, studies on the effect of pecans and other nuts on
blood profiles. From the National Pecan Shellers Association, USA
- Soy Info Online
Information on soy, soy products, and legumes. Nutrient charts for common legumes,
discussion of allergies, phytochemicals, and protective effects.
- Nutrient Data Laboratory
Search the USDA Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, for nutrition information.
VITAMINS & MINERALS
- The
Antioxidant Vitamin: Vitamin C Article by Gary Null, Ph.D. on the biochemistry
involved with vitamin C.
- C For Yourself
Dedicated to optimum nutrition and disease prevention and treatment by supplementation
with Vitamin C.
- Calcium Overview
Overview of effects that calcium has pertaining to body metabolism, consumption,
and overdosage.
- Copper
Physiology in the Human Body Discourse on copper physiology in the human body,
and information on deficiency effects, including slipped discs, aneurysms, hemorrhoids,
possibly gray hair.
- Folic
Acid Summaries of the latest research on the health benefits of folic acid.
- Folic
Acid: Don't be Without it Extensive research report that has current research on
folic acid and it's effect on the human body.
- Mc Vitamins A
nutritional education site that has index of selected vitamins with scientific and health
benefits of each.
- Minerals
Mineral listings for education information related to body function, deficiency symptoms,
therapeutic uses, and food sources.
- Natural Food:
Fruit Vitamin C Content The vitamin C content of over 50 commercial and wild fruits is
listed, both by serving and by 100 mg sample.
- Nutritional
Supplements Guide Nutrition library guide for the proper use of vitamins, minerals,
multi-vitamins, and herbs. Includes pictures and references pertaining to supplements.
Potassium in Foods
Detailed information on the potassium content of foods.
- Stressed Out? Take Vitamin C
Discusses studies suggesting that vitamin C helps boost the body's natural defenses and
fights stress. From CNN.
- USDA
Nutrient Values Interface to the USDA Nutrient Database. Nutrient values are available
for 100 gram portions as well as common serving sizes. Percent RDA is given for males and
females between the ages of 25 and 50.
- Vitamin
C Comprehensive review of research and articles concerning health benefits of vitamin
C.
- Vitamin C
Foundation A nonprofit corporation promoting scientific research on vitamin C. News,
summaries, books, articles and links.
- Vitamin
Information Center Basic information on all vitamins and their uses, daily
requirements, and history.
- Yes To Nutrition
Provides specific information on vitamins and minerals as well as nutrition products for
daily nutrition, sports nutrition, and weight management.
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