Public government sources
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USDA Foundation Foods
Source: USDA FoodData Central, USDA Foundation Foods, April 2026 CSV archive
Publisher: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center
License: Public domain, CC0 1.0 Universal
Publisher terms and reuse guidance
USDA identifies FoodData Central data as public domain under CC0 1.0. Permission is not required. USDA requests credit to FoodData Central and, when possible, notification of products using its data. The API guide supplies the suggested citation below; identify the release actually used as well.
Attribution: Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, FoodData Central (fdc.nal.usda.gov), public domain / CC0 1.0. Waztap is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by USDA. Waztap structures Foundation Foods from the April 2026 release, preserving source values and units.
Suggested citation: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. FoodData Central, 2026. fdc.nal.usda.gov
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