Metabolic Nutrition Registered Dietitian vs Registered Dietitian

Registered Dietitian has 90.5 times as many registry records as Metabolic Nutrition Registered Dietitian: 68,092 against 752. Each count is the NPPES records whose primary taxonomy is the specialty, so it measures how providers describe their main practice, not everyone trained in it.

CMS NPPES, file of Aug 9, 2026; 2023 Census population estimates · method

Metabolic Nutrition Registered Dietitian: 752 records in 50 states

California85
New York80
Texas62
Pennsylvania41
Florida35

Metabolic Nutrition Registered Dietitian nationwide →

Registered Dietitian: 68,092 records in 55 states

California7,148
Texas5,099
New York4,724
Florida3,443
Pennsylvania3,083

Registered Dietitian nationwide →

By state, with records per 100,000 residents

State	Metabolic Nutrition Registered Dietitian	Registered Dietitian	Per 100,000 (first)	Per 100,000 (second)
California	85	7,148	0.2	18.3
Texas	62	5,099	0.2	16.7
New York	80	4,724	0.4	24.1
Florida	35	3,443	0.2	15.2
Pennsylvania	41	3,083	0.3	23.8
Illinois	33	2,870	0.3	22.9
North Carolina	23	2,704	0.2	25.0
Ohio	23	2,581	0.2	21.9
Massachusetts	25	2,244	0.4	32.1
Washington	11	2,134	0.1	27.3
New Jersey	25	2,006	0.3	21.6
Michigan	13	1,816	0.1	18.1
Minnesota	18	1,590	0.3	27.7
Georgia	23	1,520	0.2	13.8
Wisconsin	9	1,457	0.2	24.6
Arizona	11	1,435	0.1	19.3
Colorado	11	1,391	0.2	23.7
Missouri	15	1,368	0.2	22.1
Virginia	17	1,307	0.2	15.1
Tennessee	18	1,266	0.3	17.8
Indiana	10	1,218	0.1	17.7
Maryland	22	1,124	0.4	18.2
Oklahoma	10	944	0.2	23.3
Oregon	6	927	0.1	21.9
Louisiana	8	847	0.2	18.5
Connecticut	12	824	0.3	22.8
Kentucky	7	801	0.2	17.7
South Carolina	7	800	0.1	14.9
Alabama	5	725	0.1	14.2
Iowa	10	694	0.3	21.6
Utah	8	684	0.2	20.0
Kansas	5	575	0.2	19.6
Arkansas	4	573	0.1	18.7
Nevada	3	527	0.1	16.5
Idaho	5	475	0.3	24.2
New Hampshire	4	430	0.3	30.7
Mississippi	1	388	0.0	13.2
Rhode Island	1	369	0.1	33.7
Nebraska	2	359	0.1	18.1
New Mexico	5	343	0.2	16.2
Maine	2	335	0.1	24.0
Montana	7	326	0.6	28.8
North Dakota	4	309	0.5	39.4
District of Columbia	4	306	0.6	45.1
Hawaii	3	269	0.2	18.7
West Virginia	3	266	0.2	15.0
Delaware	5	259	0.5	25.1
South Dakota	4	247	0.4	26.9
Alaska	0	237	0.0	32.3
Vermont	4	193	0.6	29.8
Wyoming	0	141	0.0	24.1

Source: CMS NPPES (NPPES files on CMS.gov), primary NUCC taxonomy by practice state; 2023 population estimates (census.gov).

Common questions

How many Metabolic Nutrition Registered Dietitian providers are there vs Registered Dietitian?

There are 752 Metabolic Nutrition Registered Dietitian and 68,092 Registered Dietitian records in the CMS NPPES registry, counted by primary taxonomy.

Which specialty is spread across more states?

Registered Dietitian has records in 55 states and territories, against 50.

Where is the data from?

Provider counts are from the CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES). Per-capita rates use 2023 Census population estimates.

Two specialties are not substitutes: scope of practice, training and the conditions treated differ. More comparisons →

Written with AI tools from the named public files; every figure is computed from those files (how it is made).

Figures on PlainDoctor are read from the federal files each page names (CMS NPPES, Medicare Part D, MIPS, Open Payments; the HHS-OIG exclusion list only as counts) and from Census population estimates, with the file date shown beside them. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of the NPPES file of Aug 9, 2026.