United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service

DESCRIPTION: FNDDS is used to process food intakes from the large-scale federal food consumption survey What We Eat in America (WWEIA), the dietary intake component of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), as well as other smaller-scale studies. An extensive database of food information (descriptions, nutrients, and food portion weights), the FNDDS is maintained and regularly updated to reflect the current state of the U.S. food market and to support processing of WWEIA. FNDDS contains information for several thousand foods, including many brand name products. Values for energy and 60 nutrients are included for each food, as well as weights for common food portions (from FNDDS Web site). The FNDDS is useful for both the CSFII and NHANES.

ORIGINATING AGENCY / PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR(S): United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service. Click here to view specific authors.

RELATED WEB SITES:
FNDDS Web site at USDA ARS
Continuing Survey of Food Intakes by Individuals (PRI Page)
National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (PRI Page)

PRI MODIFICATIONS TO ORIGINAL FORMAT: The original format of this data source is an Access database requiring advanced knowledge of query construction in order to locate the desired food code. PRI has enhanced functionality of this resource by taking the multiple tables from the database, converting all contents into a flat text file, and merging all into one SAS dataset. The contents of this dataset may be searched via the link below.

DATA DISSEMINATED BY: United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service