I knew USDA kept a database of the nutritional value of foods, but I didn't know what it was called. Their incompetently designed website certainly did not direct me toward this body of information -- arguably the most important database they have. After much searching, finally Google gave me the name of the database, and with that the USDA search tool reluctantly coughed it up.
And here is a link to page for searching the database: nal.usda.govcgiOpen ↗ bin/nut_search.pl
From there, I finally found what I wanted, the nutritional value of lotus root. It's almost identical to a potato, in terms of water content, carbohydrate, and calories. About triple the amount of fiber, but that's the only good thing you can say about it. That, and the holes.
I knew USDA kept a database of the nutritional value of foods, but I didn't know what it was called. Their incompetently designed website certainly did not direct me toward this body of information -- arguably the most important database they have. After much searching, finally Google gave me the name of the database, and with that the USDA search tool reluctantly coughed it up.
The site doesn't have the world's best design, but it's certainly not hard either. In that sense it's good web IQ test.
Anyone who has any trouble finding things on that site is lacking in search skills, IMO. You flunked.
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I knew USDA kept a database of the nutritional value of foods, but I didn't know what it was called. Their incompetently designed website certainly did not direct me toward this body of information -- arguably the most important database they have. After much searching, finally Google gave me the name of the database, and with that the USDA search tool reluctantly coughed it up.
You can also download the whole database as Access or flat text delimited file for importation into other databases. I don't believe there's any sort of copyright restrictions.
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The site doesn't have the world's best design, but it's certainly not hard either. In that sense it's good web IQ test.
Anyone who has any trouble finding things on that site is lacking in search skills, IMO. You flunked.
Using Google, search for "nutritional database usda" and it's the first hit.
Using Google, search for "nutritional database usda" and it's the first hit.
You didn't understand my posting. The problem was finding the database on the USDA website. I found the name of it right away on Google, and once I had the actual name of it, I could find it on the USDA website. But I should not have had to leave the USDA website to find it. On their home page, or the homepage of one of their subsidiary organizations like the FNS, there should have been a button to get there.
If you go to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office homepage, you can get right to the patent database in a few clicks. USDA isn't like that, or close to like that. I'm sorry you didn't understand that was the nature of my complaint.
I knew USDA kept a database of the nutritional value of foods, but I didn't know what it was called. Their incompetently designed website certainly did not direct me toward this body of information -- arguably the most important database they have. After much searching, finally Google gave me the name of the database, and with that the USDA search tool reluctantly coughed it up.
You can also download the whole database as Access or flat text delimited file for importation into other databases. I don't believe there's any sort of copyright restrictions.
No federal government publications are copyrighted.
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Quoted message said:
The site doesn't have the world's best design, but it's certainly not hard either. In that sense it's good web IQ test.
Anyone who has any trouble finding things on that site is lacking in search skills, IMO. You flunked.
Using Google, search for "nutritional database usda" and it's the first hit.
I knew USDA kept a database of the nutritional value of foods, but I didn't know what it was called. Their incompetently designed website certainly did not direct me toward this body of information -- arguably the most important database they have. After much searching, finally Google gave me the name of the database, and with that the USDA search tool reluctantly coughed it up.
And here is a link to page for searching the database: nal.usda.govcgiOpen ↗ bin/nut_search.pl
From there, I finally found what I wanted, the nutritional value of lotus root. It's almost identical to a potato, in terms of water content, carbohydrate, and calories. About triple the amount of fiber, but that's the only good thing you can say about it. That, and the holes.
