The Indian Food Composition tables (IFCT 2017) provides nutritional values for 528 key foods.
📦 Node.js, 📜 Files.

Food composition values were measured by National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad. Shown below is a text-query JavaScript API for search information through these tables. You may also add these to a database for more control over the query.

Online database: ifct2017.github.io.

const ifct2017 = require('ifct2017');


async function main() {
await ifct2017.compositions.load();
/// Load corpus first


ifct2017.compositions('pineapple');
ifct2017.compositions('ananas comosus');
// [ { code: 'E053',
//     name: 'Pineapple',
//     scie: 'Ananas comosus',
//     lang: 'A. Ahnaros; B. Anarasa; G. Anenas; H. Ananas; Kan. Ananas; Kash. Punchitipul; Kh. Soh trun; Kon. Anas; Mal. Kayirha chakka; M. Kihom Ananas; O. Sapuri; P. Ananas; Tam. Annasi pazham; Tel. Anasa pandu; U. Ananas.',
//     ... } ]

ifct2017.columns('vitamin c');
ifct2017.columns('c-vitamin');
// [ { code: 'vitc',
//     name: 'Total Ascorbic acid',
//     tags: 'ascorbate water soluble vitamin c vitamin c essential' } ]

ifct2017.pictures.unpkg('A001');
// https://unpkg.com/@ifct2017/pictures/assets/A001.jpeg

ifct2017.intakes('his');
ifct2017.intakes('Histidine');
// [ { code: 'his',
//     whorda: -0.01,
//     usear: NaN,
//     usrdam: -0.014,
//     usrdaf: NaN,
//     euprim: NaN,
//     euprif: NaN,
//     ulus: NaN,
//     uleu: NaN,
//     uljapan: NaN } ]
/// Negative value indicates amount per kg of body weight.
}
main();

Reference

Method	Action
compositions	Detailed nutrient composition of 528 key foods in India.
columns	Codes and names of nutrients, and its components.
pictures	Single representative photo of each foods (JPEG, 307x173).
intakes	Recommended daily intakes of nutrients.
hierarchy	Tree-like hierarchy of nutrients, and its components.
representations	Representations of columns (as factors and units).
codes	Uniquely identifiable codes for each food.
groups	Categorization of food by their common names.
descriptions	Names of each food in local languages, including scientific name.
abbreviations	Full forms of abbreviations used in the original book.
languages	Full form of language abbreviations.
methods	Analytical methods of nutrient and bioactive components.
energies	Metabolizable energy conversion factors.
nutrients	Detailed description of various nutrients, and its components.
jonesFactors	Jones factors for conversion of nitrogen to protein.
carbohydrates	Conversion of carbohydrate weights to monosaccharide equivalents.
regions	Categorization of the States/UTs into six different regions.
samplingUnits	Number of primary sampling units in each State/UT.
compositingCentres	Regional compositing centres and sample size of each region.
frequencyDistribution	Frequency distribution of States/UTs for fixing the number of districts to be sampled.
about	On the history of malnutrition, current status, and data details.
contents	Contents in the original book.

NOTE: .pictures(code) -> null as it is not included locally.
Use .pictures.unpkg(code), or .pictures.jsDelivr(code) instead.

A corpus consisting of columns, hierarchy, intakes, methods, nutrients,
representations is available for use with UI: unpkg, jsDelivr.