Jan 28, 2014

Food-specific nutrition content from the Department of Agriculture

This little app from the U.S. Department of Agriculture is fun to use.  You can pick your nutrient, or nutrients, types of foods (or all), and get a ranked listing of the nutrient's content among foods.  Surprise!  Salmon has the most Vitamin D.  But, suppose I wanted to know about Vitamin B-12, an important nutrient for aging?  Right now, before going there, I have no idea what foods contain high levels of B-12 (that's cause I'm still young!).

Try it.  You'll like it.  You'll forget it.  But then you'll remember that you saw it here on my view from Bethesda and you will find it again under (you guessed it) the label Vitamin D.