The USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference is a database produced by the
United States Department of Agriculture
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is the United States federal executive departments, federal executive department responsible for developing and executing federal laws related to farming, forestry, rural economic development, ...
that provides the nutritional content of many generic and proprietary-branded foods. Released in August 2015 and revised in May 2016, the current release, Standard Reference 28 (SR28), contains "data on 8,800 food items and up to 150 food components". New releases occur about once per year. The database may be searched online, queried through a
representational state transfer API
An application programming interface (API) is a way for two or more computer programs to communicate with each other. It is a type of software Interface (computing), interface, offering a service to other pieces of software. A document or standa ...
, or downloaded.
In April 2019, the USDA changed the presentation of food composition in its database, renaming the project as FoodData Central.
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 to ...
(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
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, 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. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of M ...
's Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition.
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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