Database Licensing through ESHA's Web Services

Rather than developing and maintaining your own nutrient database, you will save countless man hours and hundreds of thousands of dollars by relying on ESHA's expertise in this area. The nutrient database for our Web service API totals more than 13,536 foods, tracks 18+ nutrients and combines nutrient data from 246 suppliers, and is updated frequently. You will not find a more accurate, more extensive nutrient database anywhere.

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For more information or to license our Web services, please contact our Web services team.

WEB SERVICES

By using ESHA’s Web service API (application programming interface) you can circumvent several programming obstacles associated with creating the nutrition analysis component of a web application, freeing you to focus on the design and execution.  We take care of the tedious but necessary nuts and bolts of nutrition analysis that must occur behind the scenes.

For instance, with ESHA’s Web service, you:

• Have access to a high-quality ingredient database — our ESHA Nutrient Database.
• Can search the database of Ingredients quickly and are returned the most relevant results.
• Analyze a list of ingredients for nutrition content. By the way, the Web service doesn't care if a “list of ingredients” represents a recipe for lasagna or what someone ate for breakfast lunch and dinner.

We also take care of:

• Determining what measures are appropriate for each ingredient — for instance, is “cup” available for milk and for steak?
• Database maintenance and updating by our panel of research experts.
• Identifying default common measures of foods.

Cost

The cost of the web service depends on the volume of traffic (queries per month) and the number of nutrients analyzed.  Contact ESHA for a quote.

Exercise Data

We also have a database of 564 exercises that includes both calories burned and MET values (from the American College of Sports medicine Resource Manual, 5th edition, 2006) available for licensing.