Library Guides: Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology: Reference Tools + Protocols

Reference and Research Tools

Nutrition Care Manual (NCM) This link opens in a new window
Nutrition information and clinical tools for health care professionals. Includes nutrition care for specific conditions; nutrition calculators; supplement formulary; client education materials and sample menus; and additional resources. (ADA Nutrition Care Manual)
Provides research-based nutrition information and clinical tools. Provides nutrition care processes for specific diseases; nutrition calculators; nutrition therapy foods and sample menus; and more.

Pediatric Nutrition Care Manual
Library of evidence-based pediatric nutrition education materials and resources. Includes a pediatric diet manual, a client education library of more than 150 handouts (including translations), pediatric calculators, and infant formula and feeding recipe tables.

ASA24 Dietary Assessment Tool
Automated Self-Administered 24-Hour (ASA24®) Dietary Assessment Tool from the National Cancer Institute. This tool enables multiple, automatically coded, self-administered 24-hour diet recalls and/or single or multi-day food records, also known as food diaries.
FoodData Central
From the USDA. Expanded nutrient profile data. Includes five distinct data types that provide information on food and nutrient profiles: Foundation Foods, Food and Nutrient Database for Dietary Studies 2019-2020 (FNDDS 2019-2020), National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference Legacy Release (SR Legacy), USDA Global Branded Food Products Database (Branded Foods), and Experimental Foods.

NatMed Pro This link opens in a new window
Evidence-based information on complementary and alternative medicine. Includes databases on food and supplements, health and wellness, medical conditions, brands and manufacturers, genomics and proteomics, and environmental and animal health, among others.
Provide evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies. Contains three sub-databases: Herbs & supplements, condition center, and alternative modalities.

Dietary Supplement Label Database
Current and historical label information from products marketed in the U.S.

Merck Index This link opens in a new window
A source of reference information on chemicals, drugs and biologicals for the physical, life, and health sciences.
Includes more than 11,000 entries for single substances and related groups of compounds covering: chemical, generic, and brand names; CAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) registry numbers; physical data and literature references; structures and stereochemistry; toxicity information; and therapeutic uses. (Merck Index, Fifteenth edition)

Encyclopedia of Human Nutrition (4th ed.) This link opens in a new window
Reference work containing information on the foundations of nutrition science, integrating food, nutrition science, and clinical nutrition.
Topics include: biology and functions of vitamins and other essential nutrients; links between diet and health effects, including diseases of nutritional etiology; genetic and molecular aspects of nutrient-health interrelationships; nutrigenomics, metabolomics and the microbiome.
Henry Stewart Talks: Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection This link opens in a new window
Video lectures by leading experts on subjects including biochemistry, cancer, cell biology, genetics & epigenetics, infectious diseases, metabolism & nutrition, microbiology, neuroscience and more.
Additional topics include agriculture & environmental sciences, clinical medicine, immunology, methods, omics & systems biology, pharmaceutical sciences, and reproduction & development. Lecture slides and full text transcripts are available.
Food Studies Online This link opens in a new window
Primary archival materials, visual ephemera, text, and videos that explore how food shapes the world around us.
Content includes food labels, advertisements, documentary films, pamphlets, recipes, menus, books, photographs, and more.

The following protocol resources contain the full text of current protocols in a variety of disciplines

Current Protocols This link opens in a new window
Experimental procedures in bioinformatics, cell biology, genetics, molecular biology, neuroscience, toxicology, and other research areas. Click "Journals" at the top of the page to see a full list of titles.
Provides access to Current Protocols in Bioinformatics, Control Protocols in Field Analytical Chemistry, and others in the Current Protocols series.
Springer Nature Experiments This link opens in a new window
Experimental procedures in biochemistry, bioinformatics, biotechnology, cancer biology, cell biology, genetics/genomics, imaging/radiology, infectious diseases, microbiology, molecular biology and medicine, neuroscience, pharmacology/toxicology, plant sciences, and protein science.
Online versions of Methods in Molecular Biology and Methods in Molecular Medicine. Content includes biochemistry, biotechnology, genetics, microbiology, molecular and cell biology, neuroscience, oncology, and proteomics.

Cold Spring Harbor Protocols
Bio-protocol
Open access, peer-reviewed life science protocols organized by field and by organism.

JoVE: Journal of Visualized Experiments This link opens in a new window
JoVE publishes scientific research in a visual format to help researchers learn new experimental techniques and help make research more transparent and reproducible.

Protocols.io This link opens in a new window
A repository of shared protocols submitted by researchers.
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