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Show HN: Nutrients Per Calorie, a web interface to the USDA foods database

by ryanatkn on 3/25/13, 9:17 PM with 3 comments

  • by bink-lynch on 3/25/13, 9:38 PM

    This is great! My wife and I were just discussing the nutritional value of amaranth (Calcium in particular) and then I saw this.

    To be clear, the bottom bar graph represents what 2000 calories of that food would contain of that nutrient? Being used to reading ingredient labels and the recommended values, I was thinking amaranth contained ~90% of Calcium per serving, then I watched the video. Do I understand this correctly? If so, you might want to label that somehow.

    Very nice work! We love it!

    Thanks!