Where can I find information on the nutrition of meat and poultry products?
USDA’s Food and Nutrition Information Center has compiled a wide variety of links to food and nutrition resources on the Internet. USDA’s Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion also has information on the Food Guide Pyramid, preparing nutritious meals and the Healthy Eating Index as well as other nutrition information. For specific food composition data, we suggest Nutritive Value of Foods, Home and Garden Bulletin 72 (HG-72). Published in 2002, HG-72 contains data on over 1,274 foods expressed in terms of common household units. The 19 nutrients in the table are water; calories; protein; total fat; saturated, monounsaturated, and polyunsaturated fatty acids; cholesterol; total dietary fiber; calcium; iron; potassium; sodium; vitamin A in IU and RE units; thiamin; riboflavin; niacin; and ascorbic acid. The American Dietetic Association (http://www.eatright.org/, a non-governmental resource) also has a variety of nutrition information on their Web site.
