I stumbled NutritionData.com this morning and thought it was definitely worth sharing. The site’s main selling point is that it allows you to get the nutritional facts and analysis for any food. Along with the universal food-info search, the site offers hardcore health nuts and weight-watchers several useful tools for tracking and monitoring every aspect of their intake such as the “Daily Needs Calculator” which allows you to track your total consumption of calories, vitamins, nutrients, and more. Other tools include:
- The Nutrient Search Tool - Allows users to find foods that match specific criteria of any vitamin, mineral or nutrient — A good resource to be able reference if you’re physician has recently told you that you are running low on one of mother nature’s nutritional building blocks.
- The Food Category Explorer – Allows user to search for the best foods for weight loss, nutrition, blood sugar control, and more.
- Standard Browser Plugins – A few garden variety search bars like Google’s that allow you to search the ND site for nutritional info whenever you’re suddenly stricken with an insatiable desire to know for sure what’s in that ColdStone “Gotta-Have-It” Portion of Cookie Dough Delerium.
Along with the powerful search functions, the quality of advice the site offers makes it a site to be on the look out for in the like-WebMD.com niche.
Although I’m not the type of person who spends time obsessively counting calories and wondering how much zinc is in a slab of brie, sites like this, in my estimation, represent a major leap forward for humanity when it comes to the vast number of populations that would benefit greatly from instant-access to this particular type of free information. To be clear, I’m not just talking about 3rd world countries and the digital divide – I’m talking about people in developed nations who, for one reason or another, have never read anything about, or had access to information spelling out the fundamentals of nutrition and physical health. We’re so bombarded by information here in the States that we fail to realize the global significance of everyone having access to vast libraries of scientific, health-related information. — and, let’s be honest, most of us wouldn’t really pay attention anyway. But the truth is, when a site like this goes up it means that there’s one more place that anyone, anywhere, can find information that can impact the way they live their daily life — and that means that we’re one step closer to closing the knowledge gap between the world’s informational haves and have-nots.
One last thing…for those of you curious to see what the actual nutritional value of one of Cold Stone’s Cookie Dough Delerium Creations — here it is:
