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Dewolla Stepon - 20 Jun 2004 20:31 GMT

Can anyone recommend a good nutrition guide? What I'm looking for is
something that lists (alphabetical, if possible, and not by category) the
basic nutrition information (calories, grams of fat, carbohydrates, fiber,
and protein) per serving for unprepared foods/raw ingredients. As I do most
of my cooking from scratch I would like a handy reference I can take into
the kitchen with me. I'm not much interested in prepared foods, or eating
out, and would rather they not be included. I would rather the book include
all the common as well as obscure and ethnic ingredients I'm likely to find.

Anyone have a recommendation? Thanks!

- Dewolla

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JayJay - 20 Jun 2004 20:37 GMT

The best resource isn't a book, its a website:

http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/

(or www.calorieking.com which also uses the same database).

If you are any good with MSAccess you can download the database and create
your own queries and reports.

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Dewolla Stepon - 20 Jun 2004 20:40 GMT

Thanks, but I can't take the website into my kitchen!

I have FitDay also, but its a little cumbersome with its searching and I
can't take FitDay into the kitchen either.

- Dewolla

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That T Woman - 20 Jun 2004 21:36 GMT

You don't have a printer? If you do what you can do is look up the items
that you need to use and print out the listings for each item and put them
in a ring binder as you like alphabetically or even by recipe.

The book I have that I use when our net server is down, is "The Food
Shopping Counter" by Annette B. Natow, Ph.D., R.D. and Jo-Ann Heslin, M.A.
R.D. It has some packaged and tv dinner type foods but the list of regular
"ingredients" was the most extensive of the several books that was in Barnes
& Noble when I bought it.

Tonia

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JayJay - 20 Jun 2004 21:55 GMT

download the database, export to excel, print. :)

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Steve - 21 Jun 2004 01:57 GMT

> Can anyone recommend a good nutrition guide? What I'm looking for is
> something that lists (alphabetical, if possible, and not by category) the
> basic nutrition information (calories, grams of fat, carbohydrates, fiber,
> and protein) per serving for unprepared foods/raw ingredients.

http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/cgi-bin/nut_search.pl

Steve

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Dewolla Stepon - 21 Jun 2004 02:43 GMT

Thanks, everyone, for your input, but I really am looking for a published
book. Something that is bound, indexed, and which I don't have to put
together myself. I know where and how to get the nutritional information
online, or from the software I use, but I would like it in BOOK form. I
have seen books which are updated every year or so because they include name
brand prepared foods or restaurant foods, but I want one which has mainly
just raw ingredients.

- Dewolla

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