The Indian Food Composition tables (IFCT 2017) provides nutritional values for 528 key foods. 📦 Node.js, 📜 Files.

Food composition values were measured by National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad. Shown below is a text-query JavaScript API for search information through these tables. You may also add these to a database for more control over the query.

Online database: ifct2017.github.io.

const ifct2017 = require('ifct2017');


async function main() {
await ifct2017.compositions.load();
/// Load corpus first


ifct2017.compositions('pineapple');
ifct2017.compositions('ananas comosus');
// [ { code: 'E053',
//     name: 'Pineapple',
//     scie: 'Ananas comosus',
//     lang: 'A. Ahnaros; B. Anarasa; G. Anenas; H. Ananas; Kan. Ananas; Kash. Punchitipul; Kh. Soh trun; Kon. Anas; Mal. Kayirha chakka; M. Kihom Ananas; O. Sapuri; P. Ananas; Tam. Annasi pazham; Tel. Anasa pandu; U. Ananas.',
//     ... } ]

ifct2017.columns('vitamin c');
ifct2017.columns('c-vitamin');
// [ { code: 'vitc',
//     name: 'Total Ascorbic acid',
//     tags: 'ascorbate water soluble vitamin c vitamin c essential' } ]

ifct2017.pictures.unpkg('A001');
// https://unpkg.com/@ifct2017/pictures/assets/A001.jpeg

ifct2017.intakes('his');
ifct2017.intakes('Histidine');
// [ { code: 'his',
//     whorda: -0.01,
//     usear: NaN,
//     usrdam: -0.014,
//     usrdaf: NaN,
//     euprim: NaN,
//     euprif: NaN,
//     ulus: NaN,
//     uleu: NaN,
//     uljapan: NaN } ]
/// Negative value indicates amount per kg of body weight.
}
main();

Reference

| Method | Action |-------------------------|------- | compositions | Detailed nutrient composition of 528 key foods in India. | columns | Codes and names of nutrients, and its components. | pictures | Single representative photo of each foods (JPEG, 307x173). | intakes | Recommended daily intakes of nutrients. | hierarchy | Tree-like hierarchy of nutrients, and its components. | representations | Representations of columns (as factors and units). | codes | Uniquely identifiable codes for each food. | groups | Categorization of food by their common names. | descriptions | Names of each food in local languages, including scientific name. | abbreviations | Full forms of abbreviations used in the original book. | languages | Full form of language abbreviations. | methods | Analytical methods of nutrient and bioactive components. | energies | Metabolizable energy conversion factors. | nutrients | Detailed description of various nutrients, and its components. | jonesFactors | Jones factors for conversion of nitrogen to protein. | carbohydrates | Conversion of carbohydrate weights to monosaccharide equivalents. | regions | Categorization of the States/UTs into six different regions. | samplingUnits | Number of primary sampling units in each State/UT. | compositingCentres | Regional compositing centres and sample size of each region. | frequencyDistribution | Frequency distribution of States/UTs for fixing the number of districts to be sampled. | about | On the history of malnutrition, current status, and data details. | contents | Contents in the original book.

NOTE: .pictures(code) -> null as it is not included locally. Use .pictures.unpkg(code), or .pictures.jsDelivr(code) instead.

A corpus consisting of columns, hierarchy, intakes, methods, nutrients, representations is available for use with UI: unpkg, jsDelivr.