I'm a developer, hacker and simplicity freak from England. I like to build awesome things. http://ashleyw.co.uk/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ashleywcouk/~3/EH3rNWS4cJY/food-nutrient-database <p>The U.S. Department of Agriculture provides a fantastic resource for <a href="http://www.ars.usda.gov/Services/docs.htm?docid=8964" target="_blank">food nutrition data</a>. The formatting however leaves a lot to be desired:</p> <p><img class="big" src="/images/nutritional_data.png" alt="Eww!"></p> <p>Food's an interesting subject, and I've had quite a few itches in the past to create food related web apps. But I was always quickly put off after remembering the state of the data I first had to deal with. <em>Until today</em>.</p> <p>There's a lot of data included which, quite frankly, doesn't seem very useful (e.g. nutrient "<em>22:1 undifferentiated</em>", whatever that is.) So I've cherry-picked the good stuff, and dumped it as JSON goodness.</p> <h2>Example record:</h2> <script src="https://gist.github.com/1159899.js?file=gistfile1.json"></script> <br> <h2>Notes</h2> <ul> <li><strong>6,636</strong> unique foods.</li> <li><strong>375,176</strong> nutrient figures, avg. <strong>56.5</strong> per food.</li> <li>Foods from the original database without any recorded nutrients have been removed.</li> <li>Nutrients still being researched and without proper names have been removed, e.g. the "<em>22:1 undifferentiated</em>" one.</li> <li>The <code>tags</code> are commonly used words to describe the food, including regional names. For example, "soda" or "pop" for carbonated beverages.</li> <li>The format of the <code>id</code> field in the original database was a 5-digit string (i.e. "001001".) I've converted this to an integer here, <code>1001</code>, so bare this in mind if you're comparing against other USDA related resources using the original format.</li> <li><strong>94</strong> unique nutrients across all foods: <small> <ul> <li>Energy (kcal)</li> <li>Total lipid (fat)</li> <li>Protein</li> <li>Carbohydrate, by difference</li> <li>Water</li> <li>Ash</li> <li>Sodium, Na</li> <li>Iron, Fe</li> <li>Calcium, Ca</li> <li>Potassium, K</li> <li>Fatty acids, total saturated</li> <li>Cholesterol</li> <li>Vitamin A, IU</li> <li>Vitamin C, total ascorbic acid</li> <li>Phosphorus, P</li> <li>Riboflavin</li> <li>Thiamin</li> <li>Niacin</li> <li>Zinc, Zn</li> <li>Magnesium, Mg</li> <li>Fatty acids, total polyunsaturated</li> <li>Fatty acids, total monounsaturated</li> <li>Copper, Cu</li> <li>Vitamin B-6</li> <li>Fiber, total dietary</li> <li>Vitamin B-12</li> <li>Folate, total</li> <li>Vitamin A, RAE</li> <li>Folate, food</li> <li>Selenium, Se</li> <li>Folic acid</li> <li>Pantothenic acid</li> <li>Folate, DFE</li> <li>Retinol</li> <li>Manganese, Mn</li> <li>Sugars, total</li> <li>Lysine</li> <li>Methionine</li> <li>Isoleucine</li> <li>Leucine</li> <li>Valine</li> <li>Threonine</li> <li>Phenylalanine</li> <li>Histidine</li> <li>Arginine</li> <li>Vitamin E (alpha-tocopherol)</li> <li>Tyrosine</li> <li>Tryptophan</li> <li>Glutamic acid</li> <li>Aspartic acid</li> <li>Serine</li> <li>Cystine</li> <li>Glycine</li> <li>Alanine</li> <li>Proline</li> <li>Alcohol, ethyl</li> <li>Carotene, beta</li> <li>Vitamin D</li> <li>Vitamin D (D2 + D3)</li> <li>Carotene, alpha</li> <li>Cryptoxanthin, beta</li> <li>Vitamin K (phylloquinone)</li> <li>Lycopene</li> <li>Lutein + zeaxanthin</li> <li>Caffeine</li> <li>Theobromine</li> <li>Vitamin B-12, added</li> <li>Choline, total</li> <li>Vitamin E, added</li> <li>Fatty acids, total trans</li> <li>Betaine</li> <li>Tocopherol, gamma</li> <li>Tocopherol, beta</li> <li>Tocopherol, delta</li> <li>Dihydrophylloquinone</li> <li>Fructose</li> <li>Glucose (dextrose)</li> <li>Sucrose</li> <li>Lactose</li> <li>Maltose</li> <li>Galactose</li> <li>Vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol)</li> <li>Hydroxyproline</li> <li>Starch</li> <li>Fatty acids, total trans-monoenoic</li> <li>Fatty acids, total trans-polyenoic</li> <li>Fluoride, F</li> <li>Menaquinone-4</li> <li>Phytosterols</li> <li>Stigmasterol</li> <li>Campesterol</li> <li>Beta-sitosterol</li> <li>Vitamin D2 (ergocalciferol)</li> <li>Adjusted Protein </small></li> </ul> </li> <li>The individual kcal figures for protein, carbs and fat aren't included. <a href="http://www.time-to-run.com/nutrition/calculate-energy.htm">See this article on how to calculate them yourself</a>.</li> </ul> <h2>Changelog</h2> <ul> <li><strong>3rd October 2011:</strong> Added tons more portion data.</li> </ul> <h1><a id="download_food_db" href="/files/foods-2011-10-03.json.zip" target="_blank">Download</a> <small>(1.8 MB, extracts to 31.8 MB)</small></h1> <p>I'm <a href="http://twitter.com/ashleyw">@ashleyw</a> on Twitter. 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