Here’s a great data source for food and nutrition facts.
24 Aug
I stumbled across this earlier this food nutrient data set earlier this week: http://ashleyw.co.uk/project/food-nutrient-database. What the author, Ashley, did was take food nutrient data from the US Department of Agriculture and make some sense of it.
It’s available as a free download on his site. The data set comes as a single JSON file, so may be a bit hard to parse.
In this data set, there are…
- 6,636 unique foods
- 375,176 nutrient figures
- 94 unique nutrients across all foods
What you can do with this data is create a food nutrients site of 6-7 thousand pages (easily). It would act as a great, value-added companion to a health site (e.g. food blog, fitness blog, recipes site).
This kind of data is great for a number of reasons…
- It caters very well to long tail searches (e.g. “Vitamin E content in Red Bull” or something random like that).
- It’s providing quality, useful information to visitors.
- Lastly, it correlates to high paying ads (since it’s in the area of food and health).
Over the next few days, I will be playing around with this data and try to turn it into a site.
dave
Hey Dave,
Glad you like my database…and I hope you find a way to make some money from it. 😉
I’ve just updated it to include more portion data, which may be of use to you.
— Ashley
Thanks, Ashley! Will let you know if I do.