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USDA Website

AMRROL
AMRROL Posts: 168 Member
edited December 2024 in Food and Nutrition
Not really liking the new USDA website. While there are some new features that are really nice, overall, I miss the old site. Just saying.

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  • Wynterbourne
    Wynterbourne Posts: 2,235 Member
    Oh my grrrr... I just used it for the first time in a while the other day and got so frustrated I used my back up site instead. I have another site I go to when I need the vitamin/mineral percentages, but from what I've seen it's always had the accurate USDA numbers. I think it's about to become my primary site.
  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,138 Member
    If you're talking about the food search page in the nutrient database, you can click on the "sources" (at the far right) and choose "standard reference" to get back to the old database. (I've found it hard to find the generic food entries in the expanded database, because any fruit, vegetable, etc. I search for shows up in the names of so many of the brand foods that have been added.)
  • Wynterbourne
    Wynterbourne Posts: 2,235 Member
    edited September 2016
    Nope, talking about the official US government's Food Composition Database.

    https://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/search/list
  • Lasmartchika
    Lasmartchika Posts: 3,440 Member
    Ugh... I know! I forgot what I was searching for, but when I finally found it, I was trying to go two places after the decimal as usual... it would only go one! :( So instead of 1.17, it only gave me 1.1 No bueno! :tired_face:
  • Wynterbourne
    Wynterbourne Posts: 2,235 Member
    I guess I should have offered up my alternative site. Everything I've compared in the past has been the same as the USDA site. I have no way of knowing for sure, but so far it looks like a legitimate alternative. And, like I mentioned, I can snag the vitamin/mineral percentages that the USDA site doesn't offer.

    traditionaloven.com/foods/search
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