Food and Nutrition Information Center Housed within the National Agricultural Library. Great site for official nutrition information. This page provides access to Release 11 of the USDA Nutrient Database for Standard Reference. You can either view the data here or download the data files and documentation in several different formats for use later on your computer. A search tool is also provided so you can look up the nutrient content of over 5,600 different foods directly from this home page.
Files are downloadable.
Food Composition Data from USDA Data sets prepared by USDA-ARS's Nutrient Data Laboratory. These data sets can be downloaded to your computer and used in your programs. The food composition tables are based on Swedish and European research and therefore it has many popular foods from northern Europe. However, this food composition database is comprehensive . This is under the umbrella of USDA, Food and Consumer Service, provides miscellaneous guidelines and policies for the public, such as Dietary Guidelines for American, Health Eating Index, Food Guides Pyramid, etc.