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USDA FoodData Central

Nutrient composition of foods from the USDA reference database.

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About this source

Search foods, read full nutrient profiles and compare foods side by side. The standard reference for dietary studies.

Questions you can ask USDA FoodData Central

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Find randomised trials of an intervention for a condition and list their identifiers.

What comes back: Studies with registry or PubMed identifiers and key design details.

What the assistant can do with it

The 5 tools this server offers to Kahubi. The assistant picks the right one for each question.

  • usda_list_nutrients

    Look up the FDC nutrient reference table - all tracked nutrients with their numeric IDs, names, SR reference numbers, units, and categories.

  • usda_search_foods

    Search USDA FoodData Central foods by keyword.

  • usda_get_food

    Get the full nutrient profile for one food by FDC ID.

  • usda_get_foods

    Fetch nutrient profiles for 2–20 foods in a single API call.

  • usda_compare_foods

    Compare nutrients side-by-side for 2–5 foods.

Good to know

  • Community server. An open-source server maintained by the MCP community. Kahubi tests it with live queries before listing it and health-checks it regularly.
  • Cited, checkable answers. Results are treated as retrieved material and cited with the source’s own identifiers, so you can open every record the answer relied on.
  • Your files stay private. Only the search the assistant writes for your question is sent to USDA FoodData Central.

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