Looking for Online Database of Nutritional Information

January 30, 2004 11:54 PM

Is there a sort of IMDB for nutritional information?

I'm trying to watch my intake of certain things, counting carbs and calories, staying away from hydrogenated fats and high fructose corn syrup, like a good lad. To do this, I'd like to be able to record what I eat, then go over the nutritional information for a day's victuals, and say, "this or that needs to be reduced, I could have gone without such and such, oh look, this is chock full of what-have-you," and so I'd like a searchable database of information that has this sort of thing in it. Seems like it should exist already, as it would be a great tool for dieters. I can't find anything like it, though. Help?

posted by Hildago to health (5 comments total)

fitday has some of what you want. It lets you enter your food, and will tell you how much of everything you have eaten. I think it'll do a breakdown on a particular food too. The hard part is guesstimating how much of something you have eatehn - life's too short to weigh everything.
posted by deaddodo at 2:33 AM on January 31, 2004

CalorieKing has a pretty good food database, including all sorts of restaurant and fast food offerings. I use it in conjunction with fitday.
posted by jess at 2:58 AM on January 31, 2004

The USDA has a quite comprehensive searchable database
posted by daver at 5:10 AM on January 31, 2004

Thanks guys
posted by Hildago at 11:23 AM on January 31, 2004

For posterity, in case anybody finds this thread in a search, someone without a Metafilter account contacted me to tell me that Nutritiondata.com is another good resource.
posted by Hildago at 5:24 PM on January 31, 2004