Building HealthSavvyGuide on top of the USDA FoodData Central (FDC) API, I spend a lot of time staring at nutrient tables that most people never open. When you ...
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This article is for informational purposes only and is not medical advice. Consult a qualified healthcare provider before making changes to your diet, especiall...
This article is for informational purposes only and is not medical advice. Consult a qualified healthcare provider before making changes to your diet, supplemen...
This article is for informational purposes only and is not medical advice. Consult a qualified healthcare provider before making changes to your diet, supplemen...
While building HealthSavvyGuide on top of the USDA FoodData Central API, I ran into a small puzzle that turned into this article. I wanted to add a "flavonoid" ...
Medical Disclaimer: This article is for informational purposes only and is not medical advice. The figures below describe nutritional composition aggregated fro...
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 and educational purposes only and is not medical advice. Inulin is a fermentable fiber that can cause significant ...
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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...
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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 ...
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This article is for informational purposes only and is not medical advice. Consult a qualified healthcare provider before making changes to your diet, especiall...
This article is for informational purposes only and is not medical advice. Consult a qualified healthcare provider before making changes to your diet, especiall...
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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...
This article is for informational purposes only and is not medical advice. The content shares publicly available nutritional data from authoritative sources. C...
Disclosure: I am an engineer who builds nutrition data aggregators on top of the USDA FoodData Central (FDC) API. I am not a dietitian, nutritionist, or medical...
Building HealthSavvyGuide on the USDA FoodData Central (FDC) API, I noticed something while running queries against the niacin field (FDC nutrient ID 1167): of ...
Medical Disclaimer: This article is for informational purposes only and is not medical advice. Riboflavin requirements vary by age, sex, pregnancy status, and u...
Medical Disclaimer: This article is for informational purposes only and is not medical advice. Consult a qualified healthcare provider before changing your diet...
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...
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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...
This article is for informational purposes only and is not medical advice. Consult a qualified healthcare provider before making changes to your diet or startin...
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...
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This article is for informational purposes only and is not medical advice. Always consult a qualified healthcare provider before making significant dietary chan...
This article is for informational purposes only and is not medical advice. The content is intended to share publicly available nutritional data from authoritat...
Medical Disclaimer: This article is for informational purposes only and is not medical advice. The content is based on publicly available nutritional data from...
⚕️ Medical Disclaimer: This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Zinc supplementatio...
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Three months ago, I sat across from Dr. Kenji Yamamoto — a neuropsychologist in Portland who specializes in adult ADHD — and asked him the question I get in...
My neighbor Greg — the one who switched from cigarettes to a JUUL three years ago because his wife was pregnant and he wanted to \"be healthier about it\" —...
My friend Rachel sent me a screenshot last Wednesday. It was an Instagram ad — glossy, professional, the kind that looks like it cost someone $12,000 to produ...
My neighbor Karen — a radiology tech at a regional hospital outside Portland — texted me last weekend with something that had nothing to do with neighborhoo...