GDAdata (version 0.93)

foodnames: Nutritional value of food.

Description

Nutritional value of different foods based on standard serving sizes.

Usage

data(foodnames)

Format

A data frame with 961 observations on the following 9 variables.

Name

name of food (not unique)

Measure

serving description

Fat.grams

grams of fat in a standard serving

Food.energy.calories

calories per serving

Carbohydrates.grams

grams of carbohydrates per serving

Protein.grams

grams of protein per serving

Cholesterol.mg

cholesterol in mg per serving

weight.grams

weight in grams of a standard serving

Saturated.fat.grams

grams of saturated fat per serving

Source

The data are used in A. Izenman (2008), Modern Multivariate Statistical Techniques, Springer and are available on the accompanying website http://astro.temple.edu/~alan/MMST/

Examples

data(foodnames, package="GDAdata")
summary(foodnames)
library(ggplot2)
ggplot(foodnames, aes(Fat.grams, Saturated.fat.grams)) + geom_point()