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- Beef Nutrition - Nutrient data for the different cuts of beef from The Canadian Beef Industry.
www.beefinfo.org/nutrient.cfm
- Calorie Counter Chart - Provides chart detailing information on calories, carbohydrates, and nutrients in selected foods.
www.caloriechart.org
- Conjugated Linoleic Acids - Information from the University of Wisconsin detailing research papers on this subject. A PDF file of research summaries is available for download.
www.wisc.edu/fri/research.htm
- Egg Nutrition Center - Scientific information for nutritionists and health care providers to learn about eggs and good nutrition. Has list of research and scientific studies done an eggs online.
www.enc-online.org
- Exotic Fruit- Health, Diet, and Produce Information - Nutrition information on exotic fruits. Includes facts about avocado, kiwi fruit, papaya, banana, and guava fruit.
www.exoticfruit.org.uk
- Fish Oils - Summaries of the latest research on the health benefits of the omega-3 contentof fish oils.
www.pinc.com/healthnews/fishoils.html
- Fish Oils in Health and Disease - Data base with current scientific research relating to the benefits of fish oil and fish consumption.
www.oilofpisces.com
- Food Additives and Ingredients Association - Includes information on food additives and food ingredients such as enumbers, emulsifiers, flavorings, colorings, functional foods, and preservatives.
www.faia.org.uk
- Food Find - Nutritional values for common foods.
nutrition.about.com/library/foodfind/blfoodfind.htm
- Food Supplements - Information about effects of vitamins and minerals in the body with reference listings for individual nutrients.
foodsupplements.homestead.com
- Foodcount.com - Database of food descriptions, serving sizes, and nutrients available online. Offers chart to calculate the nutrient content of various diets.
www.foodcount.com
- Foods and Nutrition Solutions - Information on food buying, preparation, preservation, safety, storage, and nutritive analysis.
www.ag.uiuc.edu/~robsond/solutions/nutrition.html
- How Stuff Works: How Food Works - Eight detailed segments describe food, carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals, water, and the meaning of hunger. Helps you understand a nutrition label on your groceries.
www.howstuffworks.com/food.htm
- Life Research Universal- Health Department - Has listing of foods with saturated fat, cholesterol, and calories. Provides menus with fat and caloric content and nutritional values.
www.liferesearchuniversal.com/health.html#apple
- Loders Croklaan Lipid Nutrition - Supplies products resulting from an intensive lipid research program dedicated to delivering lipid ingredients with proven health benefits from natural sources.
www.lipidnutrition.com
- Lutein - The Vision Carotenoid - Simple and clear information on role of lutein, a plant carotenoid deficient in most western diets, in vision, especially the prevention of 'age-related macular degeneration', as well as overall health, from the 'Lutein Information Bureau' in USA.
www.luteininfo.com
- Lycopene - A comprehensive resource on lycopene and its health benefits including current research, media releases, and recipes.
www.lycopene.org
- McVitamins, Index - Index with extensive lists of popular fad diets, health symptoms, nutrition, and food additives.
www.mcvitamins.com/IndexPg.htm
- MedicalMeals - Provides content on nutrients and health benefits of various foods, research library, and recipes for high protein beverages.
www.medicalmeals.com
- Mike's Calorie and Fat Gram Chart - Has calorie and fat gram chart for 1000 foods sorted by carbohydrates, cholesterol, protein, and fat listed alphabetically. Provides health and fitness links.
www.caloriecountercharts.com
- Natural Food: Fruit - Discusses how we came to be eating the small range of fruits we now eat, and the relative nutritional and protective strengths of commercially available fruit.
www.naturalhub.com/natural_food_guide_fruit_common.htm
- Natural Food: Grains Beans and Seeds - Covers legumes and seeds and their role in the human diet through human evolution. Focuses on the legume, grain, and seed species worldwide, and is particularly relevant to the legume/grain debate in reference to human biochemistry.
www.naturalhub.com/natural_food_guide_grains_beans_seeds.htm
- Natural Food: Vegetables - A discussion of the nutritional values of vegetables during human evolution and today; including the importance of tubers, roots, corms, rhizomes and bulbs during evolution. Extensive notes on wild African, Asian, and European edible plants.
www.naturalhub.com/natural_food_guide_vegetables.htm
- Nutrient Data Laboratory Food Composition Data - Downloadable data sets prepared by the USDA Nutrient Data Laboratory with nutrient values of foods.
www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp
- Nutrients in Soyabeans - A brief piece on the nutritional composition of soyabeans.
www.sojanet.com/en/1allabout/1_topic_1plant.htm
- Nutrition Facts Labels - Develops nutrition information for labels which meet Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and US Department of Agriculture (USDA), Canadian and European Union (EU) standards.
www.nutrition-dietservices.com/labels.html
- Nutrition Guide - Information about nutrients in vegetables, green grasses, seeds, whole grains, sprouts, and legumes.
www.nutrition-guide.net
- Nutrition in Canned Foods - Describes how canned food fits into healthy eating guidelines with discussion of nutrients, and comparison with fresh food.
www.cannedfood.org/nutrition.html
- Pecans, Nutritional Content. - Fat profile, studies on the effect of pecans and other nuts on blood profiles. From the National Pecan Shellers Association, USA
www.ilovepecans.org/nutrition.html
- Phytochemicals: Vitamins of the Future? - Describes phytochemicals, identifies the foods in which they are found, and suggest ways to obtain them from a diet.
ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/5000/5050.html
- Purerfoods - Database of independently verified healthy supermarket foods, for creating eating plans, suitable for all dietary needs.
www.purerfoods.com
- Soy Info Online - Information on soy, soy products, and legumes. Nutrient charts for common legumes, discussion of allergies, phytochemicals, and protective effects.
www.soyinfo.com
- Tropicana Nutrition - Provides information on the health benefits of orange juice. Includes information from research studies, kids health, and consumer health information.
www.tropicananutrition.com
- Whey Protein Institute - Advocates the use of whey proteins in nutrition. Describes nutrition facts and functions complete proteins have in diet.
www.wheyoflife.org
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