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  "name": "daily-life-hacks-food-value-data",
  "title": "Daily Life Hacks Food Value Data",
  "description": "Every public dataset behind the Daily Life Hacks grocery cost studies: fiber per dollar, protein per dollar, protein quality adjusted with DIAAS, daily menu costing, and category-level rankings across produce, grains, legumes, dairy, meat, pantry staples and fast food.\n\nNutrient values come from USDA FoodData Central. Prices are US national figures: BLS Average Price data where the item is tracked, Walmart national listings otherwise, observed July 2026. Every ranking is calculated as-purchased, with USDA refuse percentages removed so peels, pits and bone are not counted as food.\n\nYou're welcome to reuse the data. Credit \"Daily Life Hacks\" with a link to the study page or to https://www.daily-life-hacks.com/data/. Full terms at https://www.daily-life-hacks.com/methodology/#data-license and full methodology at https://www.daily-life-hacks.com/methodology/.",
  "homepage": "https://www.daily-life-hacks.com/data/",
  "version": "2026.1",
  "created": "2026-07-26T00:00:00Z",
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    "nutrition",
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    "budget nutrition",
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      "path": "https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/"
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    {
      "title": "U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Average Price Data",
      "path": "https://www.bls.gov/cpi/data.htm"
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      "title": "Daily Life Hacks",
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      "organization": "Daily Life Hacks"
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      "title": "David Miller",
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      "title": "Animal Protein per Dollar, Ranked (2026)",
      "description": "21 animal-source foods (meat, poultry, eggs, dairy and seafood) ranked by grams of protein per US dollar. Prices are US national figures from BLS Average Price data where the item is tracked and Walmart national listings otherwise. Bone-in cuts have the USDA refuse percentage removed before ranking.",
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      "title": "Beans Ranked by Fiber and Protein per Dollar (2026)",
      "description": "10 legumes and legume products scored on both nutrients at once, pairing dry beans against their canned equivalents. Each row carries protein per dollar, fiber per dollar, and the two added together. Canned rows are measured drained.",
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      "title": "Canned vs Dry Beans, Cost Compared (2026)",
      "description": "10 rows pairing dry beans and lentils against the canned version of the same legume, ranked by grams of protein per US dollar, to quantify what the convenience of a can costs. Canned rows are measured drained.",
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      "description": "20 legume-and-grain combinations scored as complete-protein pairings. Each row is a two-food combo whose score is a 50/50 split of the dollars between two already-audited single-food rows, so the package and package price columns are intentionally empty and the component values are named in price_basis.",
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      "title": "Dairy and Egg Protein per Dollar, Ranked (2026)",
      "description": "6 dairy-case staples (eggs, milk, cottage cheese, Greek yogurt, mozzarella and cheddar) ranked by grams of protein per US dollar.",
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      "title": "Eggs vs Every Other Protein Source (2026)",
      "description": "The full 49-food protein ranking used to place eggs against every other source in the study, plant and animal, ordered by grams of protein per US dollar.",
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      "title": "Cost of 30 Grams of Fiber per Day, Five Menus (2026)",
      "description": "27 meal components making up 5 complete single-day menus, each built to reach roughly 30 grams of dietary fiber. Every row records the food, the grams used, the fiber that portion contributes, and what it cost at the audited price.",
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      "title": "Fiber per Dollar: 53 Foods Ranked (2026)",
      "description": "The flagship fiber dataset. 53 foods ranked by grams of dietary fiber per US dollar with the whole calculation exposed: USDA fiber per 100g, package size and price, package weight, edible fraction, and the derived price per 100 grams.",
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          "title": "Daily Life Hacks study: Fiber per Dollar: 53 Foods Ranked (2026)",
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          {
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            "description": "Share of the purchased weight that is actually eaten, after USDA refuse (peels, pits, rinds, bone) is removed. 1.0 means no waste."
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            "description": "Price in US dollars per 100 grams of edible food."
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          {
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            "description": "Grams of dietary fiber per US dollar spent, after the edible fraction is applied."
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      "profile": "tabular-data-resource",
      "title": "Grains Ranked by Fiber per Dollar (2026)",
      "description": "11 grains and grain products (whole wheat flour, popcorn, oats, barley, brown rice, pasta, quinoa and similar) ranked by grams of dietary fiber per US dollar.",
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        {
          "title": "Daily Life Hacks study: Grains Ranked by Fiber per Dollar (2026)",
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      ],
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