Nutrition Data
Access and understand nutritional information, including calories, macronutrients, and dietary values.
Articles in this collection
- Understanding Challenges With Nutrition Labels
Nutrition labels are complicated, so always remembers: with great power comes great responsibility.There are a few really important things to think about when you are associating your ingredients to items in the FDC (FoodData Central) database, or pr
- Why is Weight Required to Calculate Nutrition Data?
This article explains why we require ingredients to have a weight in order to calculate nutrition data.We have been asked countless times questions such as the following:"I buy [some ingredient] by volume (e.g. liters or fluid ounces) but the nutriti
- What are "Added Sugars"?
Here is a non-exhaustive list of ingredients that should be considered an Added Sugar as pertaining to the new US nutrition labels. Some Ingredients That Should Be Considered "Added Sugar" white sugar icing sugar confectioners sugar brown
- Challenges Regarding "Added Sugars"
On May 20, 2016, the FDA (USA) announced the new Nutrition Facts label for packaged foods. The nutrition label world has been a gong show ever since. ;-)There are a bunch of changes, but the major ones in terms of labelling are:Remove Vitamin ARemove