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USDA Dietary Guidelines Sentiment Analysis

    This dataset has all documents, the text and the pdf files as well as the code that was used to carry out the sentiment analysis on USDA DietaryGuidelines. The scope of the project and the resulting dataset uploaded here is carrying out the sentiment analysis on USDA dietary guidelines from 1980 till 2015 (released every 5 years). The motivation behind this project was the fact that recommendations regarding the different nutrients have changed over the years.

    USDA Table of Nutrient Retention Factors, Release 6 (2007)

      Release 6, of this data set, replaces the previous release, Release 5, issued in 2003. The data set contains the factors for calculating retention of 26 vitamins, minerals and alcohol during food preparation. Factors for the other 25 food components in Release 4 are unchanged. Factors for total choline have been added to this release.