Nutrient Data at Your Fingertips! The Nutrient Data Laboratory (NDL) has the responsibility to develop USDA's National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, the foundation of most food and nutrition databases in the U.S., used in food policy, research and nutrition monitoring. Download software on a Windows PC One you've downloaded and installed the software, you can use this program to search the SR database without being connected to the Internet. (You'll have the entire database on your computer.) You'll have immediate access to a complete listing of the nutrients in any food.
Downloads for the USDA National Nutrient Database for use on Windows 98SE® and above:
User's Guide (PDF) - guide to downloading and using the Windows® program. You'll need Adobe Reader (free) to download this file. Click here to download Adobe Reader 8.
pcs19.exe - click link to begin downloading the database
(Note: File is ~9.3Mb and will take about 1 minute to download using a broadband connection and about 20 minutes using a 56Kb Modem with a dial-up connection. Windows 2000 and XP users must have administrator rights to install the application.) |