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Natural Food: Grains Beans and Seeds
Covers legumes and seeds and their role in the human diet through human evolution. Focuses on the legume, grain, and seed species worldwide, and is particularly relevant to the legume/grain debate in reference to human biochemistry. (infos)Natural Food: Fruit
Discusses how we came to be eating the small range of fruits we now eat, and the relative nutritional and protective strengths of commercially available fruit. (infos)
Soy Info Online
Information on soy, soy products, and legumes. Nutrient charts for common legumes, discussion of allergies, phytochemicals, and protective effects. (infos)
Natural Food: Vegetables
A discussion of the nutritional values of vegetables during human evolution and today; including the importance of tubers, roots, corms, rhizomes and bulbs during evolution. Extensive notes on wild African, Asian, and European edible plants. (infos)
Food Additives and Ingredients Association
Includes information on food additives and food ingredients such as enumbers, emulsifiers, flavorings, colorings, functional foods, and preservatives. (infos)
Nutrient Data Laboratory Food Composition Data
Downloadable data sets prepared by the USDA Nutrient Data Laboratory with nutrient values of foods. (infos)
Foods and Nutrition Solutions
Information on food buying, preparation, preservation, safety, storage, and nutritive analysis. (infos)
Conjugated Linoleic Acids
Information from the University of Wisconsin detailing research papers on this subject. A PDF file of research summaries is available for download. (infos)
Lutein - The Vision Carotenoid
Simple and clear information on role of lutein, a plant carotenoid deficient in most western diets, in vision, especially the prevention of 'age-related macular degeneration', as well as overall health, from the 'Lutein Information Bureau' in USA. (infos)
Pecans, Nutritional Content.
Fat profile, studies on the effect of pecans and other nuts on blood profiles. From the National Pecan Shellers Association, USA (infos)