There are a large number of web sites dealing with nutrition/food, both in
terms of human nutritional requirements, the nutritional composition of
foods, food supply chains, food waste and food safety. Most of these sites
contain data in one form or another, but very few provide downloadable
databases. In nearly all cases data is in the form of .pdf files, or in
the case of nutritional composition of food, detailed data on individual
food items selectable from a database. In the case of nutritional
composition this is not unexpected, there are thousands of food items, raw
and processed for which data is available and no file can contain them
all. The links to data will be created under the following headings:
World Food Programme (WFP) --WFP provides a daily and annual
nutritional requirements estimate for a hypothetical adult at 2100
Kcal/day including estimated requirements of calories, protein, fat, iron,
iodine, zinc and eight vitamins. The table can be printed or downloaded as
a pdf file at
http://www.wfp.org/fais/nutritional-reporting/requirements.
WFP, WHO, UNICEF, UNHCR: A 57-page manual "Food and Nutrition
Needs in Emergencies" can be downloaded as a pdf or printed from the
following link http://whqlibdoc.who.int/hq/2004/a83743.pdf.
It was prepared by WFP, WHO, UNICEF and UNHCR and contains tables
showing nutritional requirements by age and sex as well as the
nutritional content of selected food aid commodities. It also provides
examples of how to calculate emergency rations.