Dietary Supplement Ingredient Database (DSID) The Dietary
Supplement Ingredient Database (DSID) will help researchers
improve estimates of the U.S. population's total nutrient
intakes. That's because the DSID was developed to improve
estimates of the U.S population's nutrient intakes based not
only on the beverages and foods people consume, but also on
their dietary supplement intake. The database provides
statistical estimates—based on chemical analysis—of the nutrient
content of selected ingredients in dietary supplements, compared
with label-reported ingredient levels. Currently the DSID
provides estimated levels of 18 vitamin and mineral ingredients
derived from analytical data for 115 representative unspecified
adult multivitamin/multimineral supplements (MVMs). Additional
dietary supplement ingredients will be included in future
releases of the database. The DSID was planned and developed by
the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Nutrient Data Laboratory
at the Maryland-based Beltsville Human Nutrition