Nutrition and Food Science

Formerly the American Dietetic Association, this is the world's largest organization of nutrition and food professionals.

Comprehensive food and nutrition websites resource from the National Agricultural Library.

Chapters on nutrition, food safety, what Americans eat, food prices and distribution. Online editions 2002, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996. Also available in print (A1.38/2) in Government Publications.

The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is the public health agency in the U.S. Department of Agriculture responsible for ensuring that the nation's commercial supply of meat, poultry, and egg products is safe, wholesome, and correctly labeled and packaged.

 (MedicineNet.com) Dictionary includes standard medical terms; also scientific items, abbreviations, acronyms, jargon, institutions, projects, symptoms, syndromes, eponyms, medical history -- all having to do with medicine and the biomedical sciences.

Textbook of medicine widely used by health care professionals; information on disease, diagnosis, prevention and treatment. Also available in print.

Provide "full books, free for the reading, first page to last" - over 1000 titles. Available in a variety of formats. Use "Browse Categories" to find what they have on nutrition.

Data on vital events; information on health status, lifestyle, and exposure to unhealthy influences, the onset and diagnosis of illness and disability; the use of health care.

Provides data on 6,661 foods for up to 125 nutrients and food components. View the data here or download the data files and documentation for use on your computer; look up the nutrient content of different foods directly from this home page.

NAT is a free program. It allows you to do a nutritional analysis on a wide variety of foods, within the limitations of the data (see the site). The database used by NAT is composed of the USDA Handbook #8 and information from food companies.

Full text, detailed reports on a wide variety of topics relevant for nutrition and food science research, including "Diet, Consumption, &Health," "Food &Nutrition Assistance Programs," and "Food Safety.

Find here electronic mailing lists on food, nutrition and packaging.

USDA food surveys.