Talk:Table of food nutrients

Per 100 grams would be great!..
Instead of random proportions. Also a column for water content will be handy.

Erm, what is a cup?
Maybe it's a stupid question, but I think this article is unhelpful to people outside the US because it uses American units of measurement. I honestly have no idea what half a cup of butter would look like. I think your quarts are different from ours too. Would it be possible to link these  measurement terms to the wikipedia articles for units of measurement? I would do it myself but I don't know how. 79.103.60.41 (talk) 20:28, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

I just came here to say the same. Kind of sad that wikipedia cant do better than cups... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.10.8.81 (talk) 20:17, 6 April 2023 (UTC)

Tomato fruit under vegetables?
Why isn't the tomato fruit listed in the fruit section? (A common misconception?) 2017-01-03 UTC 12:01 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.12.34.171 (talk) 12:01, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

Mistakes in the values?
The only reference that the article cites is the USDA document. However, ALMOST ALL the nutrient values mentioned here are different from that.

Consider any entry at random, say Halibut. There are 2 sub-entries in the USDA doc (which have the same fractional amounts of most nutrients). The Wikipedia entry for Halibut does not correspond to either (not even when considering nutrients per unit weight)! For calories: USDA: 119kcal/85gm ≈ 1.4kcal/gm; Wiki: 1.82kcal/gm; and similarly for fat, USDA: 2gm/85gm ≈ 2.35%; Wiki: 8gm/100gm ≈ 8%. That's a 3x difference!!

For an even comical example, see the entry for French-fried potatoes: According to Wikipedia, it contains -1 gram of protein per 60g!! How is that even possible? Do french-fried potatoes suck the protein out of our bodies?

I understand that nutrient values are not a given, and one has to assume some variance based on sources. But what is going on here??

This article needs to clean the data, and correctly cite its sources. At the very least, there needs to be a banner on top warning users of the gross unreliability of the information presented. The mistakes here also get carried on to other databases that draw from here: like this kaggle dataset. Zargles (talk) 09:52, 5 July 2023 (UTC)

Linked Articles
I'm going through this list for nutrition facts, and the linked articles at left often contain more information than this list here. That said, perhaps "salmon" should link to the "salmon as a food article"? If there's support I'd do it myself but I'd need a reference for doing so. Jwabeck (talk) 19:20, 18 May 2024 (UTC)