Basic Searching

Using the Menu

Finding a Specific Food

Food Categories

Nutritional Information

Nutrition Information

Serving Size

RDAs

Advanced Searching

Ranking Nutrients

Using Filters

Fields

Ratios

Comparing Foods

Using The Compare Tool

Compare Chart

RDI graph

By default, the Nutrition Tool omits fast foods, beverages, breakfast cereals, and some other food categories. My reasons for various category omissions are here You can change this behavior by clicking the "Categories" menu item.



Here, you can select whichever categories you wish you search through by clicking their checkboxes.

Select All -- this will select all checkboxes

Unselect All -- this will unselect all checkboxes (useful if you want to search one specific category without unselecting a bunch of checkboxes manually)

Reset categories -- this will reset the categories to their default behavior.

The categories menu item can be highly useful if you want to search through a specific set of foods, for example to find fruits with the highest amount of fiber you could unselect all, check "fruits and fruit juices" and then Rank By Fiber.