USDA Nutrient Data Laboratory

Learn about the team who developed a searchable database of foods, the USDA's National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference.

• Search the database of foods.
• Create nutrient reports. Select up to three nutrients and sort either by food description or in descending order by nutrient content in terms of common household measures.
• Access data for the USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference
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Create a printable list of foods and nutrients which can be sorted either by food name or in descending order by nutrient content.

Use this database to find estimates of ingredients and other bioactive components in dietary supplement products.

Calculate cooking yields for meat and poultry (changes in meat and poultry weights resulting from moisture and fat losses during cooking) and nutrient retention factors using this table.

Table originally published in Agriculture Handbook No. 8-11, Vegetables and Vegetable Products, 1984.

View nutrient data on over 1,274 common foods. This edition was developed using data from Release 13 of the USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference.

Access older classic publications including Agriculture Handbooks No. 74 and No. 72, Sugar Content of Selected Foods, Selected Foods Containing Trans Fatty Acids, and more.

View food values for six choline metabolites- Betaine, Glycerophosphocholine, Phosphocholine, Phosphatidylcholine, Sphingomyelin, and Total choline.

Look-up the values for five subclasses of flavonoids - Flavonols, Flavones, Flavanones, Flavan-3-ols, and Anthocyanidins.