Tinkering with the USDA Food Database

Preparing the USDA FoodDataCentral Database for Machine Learning algorithms and further statistical analysis.

Diego Barba
Towards Data Science
16 min readOct 25, 2022

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Photo by Bruno Scramgnon on Unsplash

Nutrition labels on food products are familiar to most of us. Even if we don’t actually read them, we know they are there. It has not always been so. Up to the early 1970s, nutrition labels were nonexistent in most…

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