Important Nutrients
The European Food Information Council EUFIC gives information on recommended intakes and the importance of proteins, fats, salt, sugar etc

The Basics of Nutrition
The British Nutrition Foundation provides detailed information on the basics of nutrition and food science. Of particular note are its pages on food commodities e.g. cereals, meat, chocolate with breakdowns on types, characteristics, storage, composition and key nutritional points.

The Food and Nutrition Information Center (FNIC)
FNIC is provided by the US Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library. It covers an extensive range of nutrition information and includes detailed fact sheets on individual nutrients.

Nutrition Data database
Nutrition Data's database comes from the USDA's National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference. The pages provide a nutrition glossary. There is also a nutrient search tool to find foods with the highest or lowest concentrations of specific nutrients quantatively, for example, to generate a list of low-carbohydrate foods, or to identify foods from a particular category that are high in protein and low in fat.

Tables of data essential dietary intake and nutritional requirements
Detailed quantitative data from Merck on the recommended intake of important food groups vitamins, fibre, trace minerals etc according to age group

Action against obesity
While food is essential for energy and survival, overconsumption is a major cause for concern in industrialised countries and obesity is a major burden on the public health budget. The Department of Health provides a page with strategies and guidance on how to tackle this problem

Factsheets on functional foods
Foods are functional in themselves but there is an emerging field in food science called functional foods where there is a focus on the health promoting or disease preventing function of a component in a food for example antioxidants in fruit or or adding plant sterols to margarine to lower cholesterol. These fact sheets are provided by the International Food Information Council IFIC

Nutrigenomics
Nutrigenomics is one of the newest topics in nutrition. It is the study of tailoring nutrition to an individual's genetic make up. Metabolomics is a key factor in this study. The European Nutrigenomics Organisation gives factsheets which help to explain the concept.