Nutrients content of different foods?

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Nutrients content of different foods?

How do they find out what nutrients are in each food, say like the vitman E content of a carrot? Is there some sort of machine or lab test for each vitman and mineral?

2007-11-09 02:22:59 · 2 answers · asked by The WingHunter 5 in Health ➔ Diet & Fitness

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food items get tested in a laboratory environment for nutrient and caloric content

here ya go!

http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/

2007-11-09 02:33:05 · answer #1 · answered by lv_consultant 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋

Might be you can try

http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/alt_formats/hpfb-dgpsa/pdf/nutrition/nvscf-vnqau_e.pdf

They have a lot of nutrient facts.

2007-11-09 10:33:53 · answer #2 · answered by shadow 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋