import json def get_all_nutrient_types(): f = open('') # <--- download the foundation food or any other dataset and retrieve all nutrition ID's from it https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/download-datasets.html json_data = json.loads(f.read()) nutrients = {} for food in json_data['FoundationFoods']: for entry in food['foodNutrients']: nutrients[entry['nutrient']['id']] = {'name': entry['nutrient']['name'], 'unit': entry['nutrient']['unitName']} nutrient_ids = list(nutrients.keys()) nutrient_ids.sort() for nid in nutrient_ids: print('{', f'value: {nid}, text: "{nutrients[nid]["name"]} [{nutrients[nid]["unit"]}] ({nid})"', '},') get_all_nutrient_types()