Building HealthSavvyGuide on top of the USDA FoodData Central (FDC) API, I assumed every nutrient would live in a single, tidy endpoint. Catechins were where th...
Disclaimer: This article is for informational purposes only and is not medical advice. Resveratrol is a polyphenol studied in food chemistry and longevity resea...
Medical disclaimer: This article is for informational purposes only and is not medical advice. Consult a qualified healthcare provider before making changes to ...
This article is for informational purposes only and is not medical advice. Ergothioneine is a naturally occurring amino acid found in certain foods; it is not a...
This article is for informational purposes only and is not medical advice. Consult a qualified healthcare provider before making changes to your diet, especiall...
Vitamin D Foods, Deficiency Signs, and Dietary Sources: USDA FDC Data 2026 This article is for informational purposes only and is not medical advice. Consult a ...
Medical disclaimer: This article is for informational and educational purposes only and is not medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Chromium needs vary by a...
Phosphorus is the second-most abundant mineral in the human body, but when I started indexing it across the USDA FoodData Central (FDC) dataset for HealthSavvyG...
Manganese keeps showing up at the bottom of my USDA FoodData Central queries — not because it is scarce, but because almost no one runs the query. As the ...
Building HealthSavvyGuide on top of the USDA FoodData Central (FDC) API has given me a strange habit: I sort foods by trace minerals the way other developers so...
Building HealthSavvyGuide on the USDA FoodData Central (FDC) API, I noticed something while running queries against the niacin field (FDC nutrient ID 1167): of ...
This article is for informational purposes only and is not medical advice. Consult a qualified healthcare provider before changing your diet, starting a supplem...
This article is for informational purposes only and is not medical advice. It does not diagnose, treat, or prescribe. Vitamin E supplementation has clinically m...
This article is for informational purposes only and is not medical advice. Consult a qualified healthcare provider before changing your diet, taking supplements...
Building HealthSavvyGuide on top of USDA FoodData Central, I aggregated nutrient profiles for over 1,465 foods. While indexing the database for vitamin C (ascor...
Building HealthSavvyGuide on top of USDA FoodData Central, I aggregated nutrient profiles for over 1,465 foods. While indexing the data, I noticed something str...
Raw spinach delivers 194 µg DFE folate per 100 g (USDA FDC ID 168462). Photo: Pexels. When I started building HealthSavvyGuide on top of the USDA FoodData Cent...
⚕️ Medical Disclaimer: This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Zinc supplementatio...