Food API

Nice idea to offer the USDA data as a simple API.

http://www.ars.usda.gov/nutrientdata

Getting that download of Access or oddball flat file format data sorted out and into your app is one of those jobs that manages to be just large enough to be annoying, but just a little too small to generate an open ecosystem of tools.

Someone really needs to throw together a better open source package in a modern stack for processing and indexing and (etc) that data.