The Agricultural Research Service (an arm of the USDA) recently rolled out a neat-o tool that serves up a 60-nutrient profile for each of over 13,000 different foods. The food search tool is a free pc-downloadable software that takes up about 75mb of disk space and can possibly assist you in profiling your dietary intake. The database works with Windows 2000 or Windows XP operating systems and is available for download here.
What would we like to see? How about a feature that profiles the nutrient content of organic vs traditional produce? Or maybe even an option for figuring your intake of GMO’s, insecticides, herbicides, and heavy metals? Hmmmm… that might be too much to ask.