The Nutritive Value of Indian Foods (NVIF 1989) provides nutrient composition for 592 key foods. Food composition values were measured by National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad. You can ask about composition of 592 key foods in India here: nvif1989.github.io.

Shown below is a text-query javascript API for search information through these tables. However, you may also add these to a database for more control over the query.

const nvif1989 = require('nvif1989');

async function main() {
await nvif1989.compositions.load();
await nvif1989.codes.load();
nvif1989.columns.load();
nvif1989.groups.load();
/* load corpus first */
 
// NOTE: grup is wrong, curd is wrong
nvif1989.compositions('pine apple');
nvif1989.compositions('ananas comosus');
nvif1989.compositions('sapuri');
nvif1989.compositions('294');
// [
//   {
//     code: '294',
//     name: 'PINE APPLE',
//     scie: 'Ananas comosus',    lang: 'B. Anarash; G., H., Kan., Mar., P. Ananas; Mal. Kayitha chakka; O. Sapuri Anasianas; Tam. Anasi pazham; Tel. Anasa Pandu',
//     grup: 'Cereal grains and products',
//     tags: 'vegetarian eggetarian fishetarian veg',
//     enerc: 46,
//     water: 87.8,
//     ...
//   }
// ]

nvif1989.columns('vitamin c');
nvif1989.columns('c-vitamin');
// [
//   {
//     code: 'vitc',
//     name: 'Vitamin C',
//     tags: 'ascorbic acid total ascorbate water soluble essential'
//   }
// ]

nvif1989.codes('hing');
// [ { name: 'Hing (B.,G.,H.,Mar.,P.)', code: '215' } ]

nvif1989.groups('cereals');
nvif1989.groups('Grains');
nvif1989.groups('505a');
// [
//   {
//     code: 'A',
//     group: 'Cereal grains and products',
//     entries: '1-27;452-465;505a',
//     tags: 'vegetarian eggetarian fishetarian veg'
//   }
// ]
}
main();

reference

| Method | Action |-------------------------|------- | compositions | Detailed nutrient composition of 592 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. | [nutrients] | Detailed description of various nutrients, and its components. | proteinValue | Absorption and bioavailability of different protein sources. | calorieCoefficient | Relative calorie requirement of distinct demographics. | activityClass | Classification of activities based on occupations. | [energies] | Metabolizable energy conversion factors. | [jonesFactors] | Jones factors for conversion of nitrogen to protein. | [carbohydrates] | Conversion of carbohydrate weights to monosaccharide equivalents. | [about] | On the history of malnutrition, current status, and data details. | contents | Contents in the original book.

TODO: methods in italic.