Monday, April 25, 2011

SELF Nutrition Data

I stumbled upon a fairly comprehensive database of nutrition information at the SELF Nutrition Data website. You do not have to be a member in order to perform nutrition searches.

You can search by food name or by nutrient to obtain nutrition facts, various charts showing where this food fits into the nutrition spectrum and a detailed breakdown of all nutrients in several categories. I’ve never seen any other resource go into as much detail as this site.

For example, here is a link for an a voluminous collection of data on the nutrients in raw bananas. The screen capture below only shows about one third of the available page. You can already see that the data is well organized and quite detailed.

The only negative thing I have to say about the site is that it presents recommendations based upon the flawed notion that saturated fats and cholesterol are inherently unhealthy for you. This is the conventional wisdom that is now being challenged on many fronts.


1 comment:

  1. I don't know, honestly. I assume that it's an ever-growing database of material.

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