USDA Nutrient Listings (+ B6 questions)

July 2, 2003

This is the first time I found these cool pdf's on the USDA site.

Go here:

and click

'Reports by Single Nutrients' which takes you to:

Here you see a list of nutrients (fat, carbohydrates, magnesium, b6,

cholesterol, etc. etc.) *NOTE* Click on the " W " buttons (as opposed

to " A " for alphabetical) to get the foods listed by amount of

nutrient. So you can see right away which foods have the most of

each nutrient.

It confirms that beef liver is highly nutritious, containing

significant amounts of hard to get nutrients including B6, Copper,

Mg, and A.

Also interesting is if you look at the B6 listing it seems almost

impossible to get the RDA of B6 unless you eat (fortified) cereals.

This explains the emphasis on raw animal foods in NT. Of course no

raw animal foods are in the usda listings.

Does anyone know how much B6 is in raw milk? Raw cheese? And at what

temp is B6 destroyed?

For some reason I don't see B6 mentioned anywhere on realmilk.com,

anyone know why not? Doesn't NT say B6 is a reason to drink raw milk?

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