Nutrition:
Web Resources

Filled with useful consumer information, Nutrition.gov is "gateway to reliable information on nutrition, healthy eating, physical activity, and food safety for consumers."

An integrated data system providing expanded nutrient profile data. If you are interested in nutrition you should become familiar with these resources.

Portal to a wide variety of nutrition-related web sites geared toward health professionals. Great source for sites related to policy, research, and prevention aids.

Directory of resources in various areas such as food labeling, dietary supplements, lifecycle nutrition and food composition. Most of the sites are associated with the USDA.

Type a search for two foods in this format: Compare [food1] and [food2] to get a list of calories and nutrients in a 100 g portion. (ex: Compare kale and carrots)

The Rudd Center is a non-profit organization devoted to promoting solutions to childhood obesity, poor diet, and weight bias through research and policy

Provides nutritional information for over 70,000 foods and approximately 500 restaurants.

WONDER (Wide-ranging OnLine Data for Epidemiologic Research )is a collection of public health information databases from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

Provides a spacial overview of access, or lack thereof, to supermarkets in low income areas.

This is the primary agency responsible for collecting American health statistics.

Provides data by topic or state. From the Henry J.Kaiser Family Foundation.