The USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference is a database produced by the United States Department of Agriculture 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". [1] New releases occur about once per year. The database may be searched online, [2] queried through a representational state transfer API, [3] or downloaded. [4]
In April 2019, the USDA changed the presentation of food composition in its database, renaming the project as FoodData Central. [5]
FoodData Central is USDA's integrated data system that contains five types of data containing information on food and nutrient profiles: [6]
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The USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference is a database produced by the United States Department of Agriculture 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". [1] New releases occur about once per year. The database may be searched online, [2] queried through a representational state transfer API, [3] or downloaded. [4]
In April 2019, the USDA changed the presentation of food composition in its database, renaming the project as FoodData Central. [5]
FoodData Central is USDA's integrated data system that contains five types of data containing information on food and nutrient profiles: [6]
{{
cite press release}}
: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (
link)