NCC maintains and updates a premier food and nutrient database that is relied on heavily by the scientific community and app developers. It may be licensed for a variety of purposes, including use for nutrition-related apps and websites.
What sets the NCC Food and Nutrient Database apart from the rest?
- Curated – experts at the University of Minnesota assign nutrient values to foods using reliable nutrient composition data and well-established imputation procedures.
- Quality assurance procedures ensure that no duplicate foods are included.
- Each food in the database is given a short food description that aligns with the way people describe foods they eat.
- Food amount units are provided so that people can report the amount of food eaten in a way that makes sense to them.
- None of the data is crowd-sourced or obtained via data scraping.
- Comprehensive – more foods and nutrients than other research quality food and nutrient databases (comparison table)
- About 19,000 foods, including 8,300 brand name products, menu items available at 23 leading restaurants, and foods from a variety of eating traditions
- 175 nutrients, nutrient ratios, and other food components
- Food group serving count system is available to facilitate estimating intake of food groups (e.g., daily servings of fruit)
- Complete – most foods have no missing nutrient values
- Current – new version is released annually with additions and updates to foods and nutrients
Learn More
- Data Format and Content
- Nutrient Information Sources
- Imputation Procedures
- Additions and Updates
- Considerations in Selecting a Database
- FAQs
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