USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, Release 16

Files for Downloading

NOTE:  This release of the USDA Nutrient Database for Standard Reference has been superseded.  The new release is available on our new web site:  http://www.ars.usda.gov/nutrientdata.  Access to Release 16 of the USDA Nutrient Database for Standard Reference is provided here for those users who may wish to use it for historical reasons.  

All files are compressed using PKZip, right click here to download pkzip

Documentation for the database is available either in the main SR16 directory as a PDF file or in the download files listed here. The documentation is given as a PDF file. PDF files can be read using the Acrobat reader which is available free. To install a PDF viewer in your web browser read, "Steps to Downloading the Free Acrobat Reader"

Full version 

• ASCII (3,215 Kb) - This file contains the SR16 data in ASCII, delimited files. These tables are organized in a relational format, and are best used with a relational database management system (RDBMS).  A RDBMS allows you  to form your own queries of the database and generate custom reports.
• ACCESS (13,541 Kb) - This file contains the SR16 data imported into a MS Access database.  It includes relationships between files and a few sample queries and reports.  You need MS Access 2000 to use this file. 

Abbreviated - This file contains data for a limited number of nutrients for all food items in ASCII format. See the documentation for more information.

• ASCII (944 Kb) - delimited file suitable for importing into many programs.
• Excel (1,416 Kb) - for use with MS Excel, but can also be used by many other spreadsheet programs.

Update Files -  Contains updates for those users who have loaded Release 15 into their own computers and wish to do their own updates.

• ASCII (1,725 Kb) - delimited file suitable for import into many programs

Last modification date: August 11, 2006