Anil!
I was going to ignore your comment, but decided to set record straight.
NutritionData.com does not provide any better information than
IndiaCurry.com or thousands of other sites. Almost all the websites and
organizations use USDA SR19. That is the authoritative source. You can
search the internet and find USDA SR19 and download it on your
computer. It has Sprouts: alfaalfa, Mung, Kidney beans, navy beans,
pinto beans, lentils, soybeans, wheat...
In Untied States, the vendors have the lab who generate the data and
feed it to food serving and food preparation organizations. The same
data is submitted to US Department of Agriculture. The data is sorted
and put in the USDA data base. The latest data base is SR19.
This is free data base for use by everyone in Uniteds States or over
seas. Anyone can download this data base. It is the property of USDA.
NutritionData.com started out to provide a recipe generator and craeted
a front end application sooftware. They are no more authoritative on
nutrition than any good software organization. It is possible that they
did not include sprouts for some reason. For example they do not
extract histadine amino acid information for any food in the data base.
IndiaCurry.com does beacause of Almonds being popular in India and
majority of Indians are vegetarians. Essential fatty acidas are
important to Indians.
IndiaCurry.com uses SR19 for most of its information. Some places it
does use data directly provided by the vendor, as IndiaCurry.com used
to operate a restaurant. That data may not yet be submitted to USDA.
Now there is a problem about the sprouts. The vitamins depend on the
maturity of the sprout (days), sun light exposed, the water... The data
varies all over the spectrum depending on the vendor. The SR19 has
included data on a general basis, but many of the orgainzations have
shyed away form it.
Yogi Gupta
IndiaCurry.com
Juhana Harju - 17 Dec 2006 06:34 GMT
: NutritionData.com does not provide any better information
: than IndiaCurry.com or thousands of other sites. Almost all the
: websites and organizations use USDA SR19. That is the authoritative
: source.
That is not the only authoritative source. Many others are listed at this
page of the Danish Food Composition Databank. And many of the sites
mentioned are based not only on the data provided by USDA, but other
nutrition assessments as well.
http://www.foodcomp.dk/fcdb_links.asp

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Juhana
Joe Doe - 18 Dec 2006 03:14 GMT
> IndiaCurry.com uses SR19 for most of its information. Some places it
> does use data directly provided by the vendor, as IndiaCurry.com used
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> Yogi Gupta
> IndiaCurry.com
I agree with you that getting meaningful nutritional data will be very
difficult because of difficulty in standardization.
I initially thought your posts were a disguised spam attempt, but your
site does look like an interesting collection of recipes/nutritional
information and labor of love rather than a purely business enterprise.
Roland
yogigupta - 18 Dec 2006 16:18 GMT
> I initially thought your posts were a disguised spam attempt, but your
> site does look like an interesting collection of recipes/nutritional
> information and labor of love rather than a purely business enterprise.
>
> Roland
Roland!
Thanks for visiting the website. It s a lot of work and I enjoy it. Its
a free website. The Google AdSense activity is just large enough to pay
for the hosting services.
Seven years ago, it started out as a cooking site.. About 4 years ago,
I volunteered to be an advsior on an Indian site. As a result, the
website expnaded to include some of nutrition and health data. The
information fills an imprtant niche: Cooking and Nutrition for Indians
living in United States.
Yogi