USDA Nutrition Database

Instructions: Notes:
Select major food and column groups via the radio boxes below.
Refine selections by clicking on the little boxes beside labels.
Click on the column labels to sort data.
Popup boxes provide info on units, serving size, USRDA, etc.
See the manual for much more detailed instructions.
See this page for a list of interesting "canned" database views.
PLEASE see these notes for discussion of how to use data.
Source: USDA website from some time around 2003.

This page requires a (somewhat) sophisticated browser, with Javascript and DHTML enabled. Unfortunately the raw data files are in compact usable form in numerous Javascript modules, so if your browser fails to display this table you're going to have to go to the USDA site. It's not a very good website (in my opinion), but it does have a ton of information in somewhat-handy ASCII and other database files, all of which are free.

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