missing entries from USDA database

Citizen_Snips

It seems there are common items missing from the USDA nutrient database. For example, "Spinach, raw" and "Pepper, sweet, red, raw" are missing. So far I've been find what I'm looking for in the NCCDB or I can always make a custom food if what I'm looking for is unavailable in the provided databases, but why would what is arguably the most "official" database, the USDA Nutrient DB, be incomplete? Are items still being added to it?

Karen_Cronometer

Hi Citizen_Snips,

Some foods from USDA are not populated automatically in your search results, because we have the same information given by NCCDB. We try to keep our search results more clear by removing duplicates or using the version with more nutrition data available.

Best,