FSTA is a bibliographic abstracting and indexing (A&I) database of scientific and technological research and information relating to food, beverages, and nutrition.

[1] The database is used by researchers, industry practitioners, and university students.

In addition to over 5,475 active and historical journals, FSTA indexes books, trade publications, reviews, conference proceedings, reports, patents, and standards, producing 22,675 sources overall.

Updated weekly, its records are indexed against IFIS' thesaurus, which contains over 12,346 food science keywords, curated and structured into food-centric hierarchies.

[2] FSTA can be accessed through EBSCOhost,[3] Ovid,[4] Proquest Dialog,[5] STN[6] and Web of Science.