[Saute-develop] USDA Nutrient Database

[Olivier.Roch-Vilato <Oli...@wa...>]

Hi

I did a little perl program that use the USDA Nutrient Database for Standard
Reference, Release 14
maybe we can use it to evaluate nutritional values for recipes (by linking
recipes' ingredients to ingredients in USDA database ; a field 'usda' in
recipeIngrendients for example)

What do you think ?


A+
Olivier


Instructions :
download this file :
 http://www.nalusda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/Data/SR14/dnload/sr14.zip
and copy it in the directory where you untar usda.tgz

execute installUSDA (quite ugly script to install USDA database in MySQL)

try usda.pl (first double-click on a group, then on a food)

sr14_doc.PDF containts definitions of USDA database's files