Publisher's Synopsis
This reference text has been revised to ensure relevance to today's eating habits - 85% of the text is new or updated. It provides complete nutritional information on 8,500 foods in an easy-access tabular format. Comprehensive, "Bowes and Church's" discusses not only general foods but common brand name products, for extra utility in real-life nutritional analysis. Appendices list all foods containing a particular substance, such as caffeine or iron. New to this edition: food tables which cover monounsaturated fat content; 3,000 more foods; and listings of the sources for each food entry.