American Nutrient Database

Good Nutrition is a Lifestyle

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The American Nutrient Database is a simple program that gives American nutritional information on over 7000 foods.

The American Nutrient Database gives American nutrient values including American fortification standards, for 46 nutrients, for over 7000 foods. It lets you select different serving sizes for each food item and all values are updated automatically.

This program also gives you the percent of Recommended Daily Intake (RDI) for 28 nutrients in each food selection.

If you are trying to:

• Eat Healthier
• Diet
• Know what you are eating
• Keep track of your intake
• Plan your food

The American Nutrient Database may be just what you need.

Data:

The nutrient values of the American Nutrient Database are based on the values per 100 grams of product of:

Composition of Foods

Raw, Processed, Prepared

USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference

Release 18

August 2005

The base RDI's used are from:

Reference Values for nutrition Labeling

U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition

A Food Labeling Guide

September, 1994

REV. Jan 30, 1998

(Editorial revisions June, 1999)

Both metric and imperial serving sizes are supported.

Special Note on Indigenous Foods:

There is an indigenous food section to this database. In the food classification "Ethnic", there is a collection of 89 indigenous foodstuffs including moose, caribou, whale, native fishes and native corn products. These are foodstuffs you won't find in the stores.

Last altered 01/08/2008

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