This is a Django application which includes models corresponding to the USDA Nutrition Database, as well as import scripts to pull the current version of the dataset (SR28) into the Django-managed database.

NOTE: django-usda also exists, but imports an older (SR22) dataset.

This packaged has only been tested with Python 3.5+ and Django 1.9+, but should work with other versions. Feel free to submit pull requests for compatibility.

Install from pip:

pip install django-usda-nutrition

Add usda_nutrition to your INSTALLED_APPS and then:

./manage.py import_usda

• The USDA database includes comprehensive information on how all nutritional data is calculated and references to the corresponding source datasets. Because that data is out of scope to use-cases that simply want to include the raw nutritional content in an application, those tables are not imported with this package. Nonetheless, the source CSV files, stubbed out models, and references to them in the import management command and checked in. The corresponding code is commented out and could be a starting point to anyone wanted to use that data in a Django app.

• A single bad datapoint from FOOTNOTE.txt was manually removed.