The Food and Nutrition Information Center (FNIC) is a leader in online global nutrition information. Located at the National Agricultural Library (NAL) of USDA, the FNIC site contains over 2000 links to current and reliable nutrition information.

This federal resource provides easy access to all online federal government information on nutrition. This resource makes obtaining government information on nutrition, healthy eating, physical activity, and food safety, easily accessible in one place.

one of six product-oriented centers that carry out the mission of the Food and Drug Administration

The Mission of the Nutrient Data Laboratory is "to develop authoritative food composition databases and state of the art methods to acquire, evaluate, compile and disseminate composition data on foods available in the United States."