I&#x27;m pretty familiar with the USDA SR dataset, and here are my thoughts (examining data with one of my experiments diarytail.com)<p>1) People in the enterprise space will be willing to deal with the weird nuances of the USDA-SR data.  For example writing &#x27;beef cooked&#x27; vs&#x27; &#x27;beef raw&#x27;.<p>2) In the general consumer space, there is a huge problem in getting the general public to find ingredients they use.  I found lots of people typing in brand name ingredients not matching what is in the USDA data set.<p>To me, the problem is partially solved with My Fitness Pal&#x27;s huge dataset of user generated data.  However the flip side is it is missing most of the micros as they are entered via a nutrition label.<p>Another solution might be to reference nutritionix.com &#x27;s dataset (I think the joyapp.com uses it also)