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Changes to ASA24® (U.S. Version) Database Between 2016 and 2018

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The U.S. version of ASA24-2018 uses foods and portions from two USDA nutrient databases: The Food and Nutrient Databases for Dietary Studies (FNDDS) 2011-12 and 2013-14. In building ASA24-2018, we maintained foods from FNDDS 2011-12 and added new, popular foods from FNDDS 2013-14. The modifications to the ASA24-2018 database based on FNDDS 2013-14 expand options for:

  • Coffee drinks
  • Reduced sodium bacon and sausage
  • Juice with added calcium
  • Kefir
  • Unsweetened almond milk
  • Gluten free bread, cookies, pancakes, pastas, pretzels, rolls, and waffles
  • Smoothies (with options for fruit, vegetable and protein ingredients)
  • Greek yogurt
  • Sushi (including rolled and topped, and Maki, Temaki and Nigiri)
  • Ethnic foods:
    • Edamame
    • Vada (Indian dumpling)
    • Kolache
    • Adobo (Filipino)
    • Congee (Asian)
    • Sambar (Indian vegetable stew)
    • Pocky (Japanese snack)
    • Wasabi paste
  • Alcoholic drinks

Details by Category

Alcohol

Added hard cider; vodka and tonic
Beer: Added probe asking if beer was low-carbohydrate, high-alcohol, or light
Whiskey: Added probe asking if mixed with water, soda, cola, diet cola or ginger ale
Vodka: Added two new responses, “tonic” and “lemonade” for the probe, “What was it mixed with?”

Baby Food

Added bananas with orange

Bacon

Beef, pork and turkey bacon: Added probe to ask if regular or reduced sodium

Breakfast Bars, Granola Bars, Meal Replacement Bars

Added Clif Kids Organic Zbar

Burger and Hot Dog Sandwiches

Hot dog , frankfurter, and hamburger buns: Added probe asking for type of grain; standardized the answer choices to reflect new options. (Note that although other sandwich categories include hot dog and hamburger buns, we did not add the type of grain question to those categories.)

Cereal

Added Chex Chocolate, Cinnabon, Froot Loops Marshmallow, Organic Flax Plus, Pumpkin Granola, and Nature's Path

Chili

Chili and Chili con carne: Added probe to ask if from restaurant, fast food, home recipe, canned, or frozen

Cooked cereal

Oatmeal: Added probe to ask if from fast food or other restaurant

Coffee

Added macchiato, mocha frappuccino, mocha frappuccino with whipped cream, iced latte, and iced café mocha
Lattes: Added probe to ask if flavored or sweetened
Café con leche, café mocha, and coffee from a vending machine: Added probe to ask if regular or decaffeinated
Frappucino: Added response option, ”soy or other non-dairy milk” to probe, “What type of milk was used? ”

Cookie

Added pocky, Japanese snack, and gluten free cookies

Crackers

Crackers: Added probe, “What kind were they?” for gluten free types
Whole grain sandwich crackers: Added probe asking if they were regular, reduced fat, or something else

Condiments

Added wasabi paste

Cobblers, Crisps, Strudels, Turnovers

Added Kolache

Dumpling

Added vada (Indian fried dumpling)

Flavored Milk Drinks

Chocolate and strawberry milk: Added probe question to ask if made with soy or other non-dairy milk
Chocolate milk: Added probe question to ask if reduced sugar
Horchata: For probe question, “What type of liquid was used to make it?“ reduced the number of responses to water and milk, eliminating previous options that included milks of different fat contents.

French Fries

Multiple FLTs – Added answer choice of school for the question, “Were they from a fast food place, home-prepared, or some other place?”

Juice

Cranberry-apple, cranberry-grape. apple, grape, and grapefruit juices: Added probe question to ask if calcium added
Half & half (tea and lemonade): Added probe question to ask if regular or diet

Milk

Added Kefir
Almond Milk: Added probequestion to ask if sweetened or unsweetened

Milk Shake

Smoothies: Added probe questions to ask if vegetables, fruit, or protein included

Mixed Dishes

Added Adobo (Filipino) and Congee (Asian)

Nuts, Seeds, and Mixtures of Nuts and Seeds

Macademia nuts, mixed nuts, pistachio nuts, walnuts: Added detail question to ask if salted or not

Other sandwich

Added Subway B.L.T. and Subway B.L.T. with cheese

Other Salads

Potato salad (not German style): Added probe question to ask if from fast food or other restaurant

Pancake

Buttermilk, plain, pancake (other kind) and pancake (unknown kind): Added response category of “gluten free” to question, “What kind were they?”

Pasta

Added pasta (plain) and pasta, gluten free (Includes macaroni, spaghetti, any shape of pasta)

Pretzel

Added pretzel, gluten free

Poultry

Chicken nugget, chicken patty, chicken strips and chicken tenders:- Added probe question to ask if from fast food, restaurant or school

Rice

Spanish rice: Added probe question to ask if from fast food or other restaurant

Roll

Added roll, gluten free
Hot dog, hamburger bun, roll and English muffin: Added probe question to ask grain choices

Sausage

Beef, breakfast, chicken, pork, sausage (unknown kind), and turkey sausages: Added probe question to ask if regular or reduced sodium

Sweet Breads, Coffee Cakes, Sweet Rolls, Pastries, Muffins (not corn), and Croissants

Added Kolach (sweet roll)

Stew

Added Sambar (Indian vegetable stew) (Includes sambhar, sambaaru, or kuzhambu)

Sushi

Added Maki, Temaki, Nigiri
Sushi: Added probe question to ask if rolled or topped

Vegetables

Added yellow beans, canary beans, Peruvian beans, soybeans (mature), edamame, ginger root (pickled), Chinese broccoli, taro leaves

Waffle

Belgian, buttermilk, waffle (other kind) and waffle (unknown kind): Added response, “gluten free” to probe question for “What kind were they?

Yogurt

Added Greek yogurt

Supplements

Added:

  • Caltrate calcium & vitamin D3 600+D3 highest level of Vitamin D3
  • Nature made calcium 500 mg now with Vitamin D 400 IU
  • Kirkland Signature calcium 600 mg + D3 with Vitamin D3
  • Simply Right calcium 600 mg with Vitamin D3 double the Vitamin D3 800 IU Vitamin D3
  • Disney multi-vitamin gummies Disney Pixar Monsters University
  • Spring Valley fish oil 1000 mg/300 mg omega-3 per softgel 3 per day no fish burps
  • Simply Right all natural enteric fish oil 1200 mg + Vitamin D-3 2000 IU double omega-3 strength one per day 1200 mg fish oil with 600 mg omega-3 controls fishy burps & aftertaste
  • SP Standard Process tuna omega -3 oil 8070

Note about hybrid nutrient values

Some foodcodes that are in both FNDDS 11-12 and 13-14 have some new portion codes in version 13-14. Although nutrients for the same foodcode are mostly the same between versions of FNDDS, there can be slight differences. The nutrients for the portion codes that existed in version 11-12 reflect nutrients from version 11-12 and the nutrients for the new portion codes in version 13-14 reflect nutrients from version 13-14.

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Last Updated: 02 Jun, 2022