Surf these sites: Beef Info Page -- The Canadian Beef Industry site focusing on food selection, plus a balanced discussion of iron in foods. CLA: Conjugated Linoleic Acid in Meat and Milk -- A good review of the known antioxidant qualities and still unanswered questions. California Avocado Commission -- Official site of the California Avocado Commission. Information about the nutritional value of the avocado in the human diet. California Strawberry Commission -- Provides resources including recipes, desserts, nutritional information, consumer news, grower news, celebrity chef interviews, farm tours, contests and trade information. 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. Eat it Today at Welltopia -- Daily food facts on particular food items: food value, and how to select it. (Includes archives of past daily food facts.) Foods and Nutrition Solutions -- Information on food buying, preparation, preservation, safety, storage, and nutritive analysis. 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. 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. 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. 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. Nutrient Data Laboratory -- Search the USDA Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, for nutrition information. Nutrient Data Laboratory Food Composition Data -- Downloadable data sets prepared by the USDA Nutrient Data Laboratory with nutrient values of foods. Nutrients in Soyabeans -- A brief piece on the nutritional composition of soyabeans. Nutrients in Whole Grains -- A broad discussion of the nutrients and protective substances in whole grains, with an extensive list of cited and uncited references. By General Mills, USA. Soy Info Online -- Information on soy, soy products, and legumes. Nutrient charts for common legumes, discussion of allergies, phytochemicals, and protective effects.
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