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Providing easy, online access to government information on food and human nutrition for consumers.
A service of the National Agricultural Library, USDA.



NAL will perform a major network upgrade beginning Saturday, February 16 through Monday, February 18. Expect periodic and rolling service disruptions affecting all services at times during this upgrade. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.


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The USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) is soliciting customer and stakeholder input on planning and setting research priorities for its human nutrition research program. Provide your input on various research problem statements and it will help guide the ARS in planning human nutrition research priorities for the next five years.


You can create your own personalized cookbook by adding recipes you've selected from the SNAP-Ed Recipe Finder database, or you can choose one of the fixed cookbook options that use pre-selected recipes based on several categories. Start building your cookbook today!


Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food (KYF) Compass

Compass is a digital narrative with stories, pictures and video about USDA’s support for local and regional food projects and successful producer and community case studies. An interactive mapdisplays the various ways and places where initiatives have made an impact.


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