Food composition database for packaged products

What the label leaves out.

The panel on a jar of mayonnaise lists protein, fat and salt. It has no line for omega-3, because the labelling rules do not permit one. We hold that value for the jar, and for 1,098,303 packaged products in all, along with 690 other nutrients and indices.

1,098,303 products
691 nutrients and indices
315,298,569 values
mean coverage 41.55%

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Search all 691 nutrients and indices

Find the ones your work turns on and read their coverage.

691 nutrients and indices

Nutrient or index	Family	Products	Coverage	Evidenced

Nutrients marked absence only publish confirmed absences: no product in this release carries a positive value for them. Coverage is the share of the 1,098,303 products carrying any value for that nutrient. Evidenced is the share of a product's reconstructed mass tracing to an observed measurement.

Coverage of nutrients and indices

253 above 90% coverage
251 with values, 2 absence only
6 at 75% to 90% coverage
5 with values, 1 absence only
432 below 50% coverage
all of them absence only

Evidenced share of nutrients

74 above 95% evidenced
46 80% to 95% evidenced
53 50% to 80% evidenced
52 below 50% evidenced

What comes with every value

More than just nutrients

01 How much of a single value rests on evidence. Take one number: the omega-3 in one jar of mayonnaise. That single nutrient value carries a share showing how much of it rests on evidence and how much comes from modelling. Across the database that share averages 78.73%, and 64.37% of values are at least 95% evidenced. We screened 1,764 peer-reviewed papers to build that evidence base. The share belongs to that one number. Not to omega-3 across the database, and not to the jar as a whole.
02 How uncertain the value is. Each nutrient value carries an uncertainty interval, a low figure and a high figure that bracket the amount. We calibrate those intervals against held-out data. A wide interval tells you to treat the number with care. A narrow one tells you it will hold up in a calculation.
03 Whether a zero means none or unknown. Where a food contains none of a nutrient, we record a zero and stand behind it. 102,327,995 values, 32.45% of the total, are zeros of that kind. Where we hold nothing, we record that separately. Other sources leave both blank, and you cannot tell which one you received.

Who this is for

Four places this changes your answer

Clinical & dietetic software

Diets defined by what labels omit

Renal, gout and low-FODMAP plans turn on nutrients no label prints. Your software sends a barcode and gets oxalate, purines and 680 more, each with its interval.

Consumer nutrition apps

One scan, 691 answers

Your users scan a pack and expect an answer. Return the omega-3, the individual sugars or the polyphenols, and show how sure you are.

Manufacturers & retailers

Your product against the shelf

Compare a reformulation against the whole category at a nutrient resolution no spec sheet carries. The 1,098,303 products are your comparison set.

Research & public health

Intake from what people bought

Purchase records name barcodes. Nutrient tables name generic foods. We sit on the barcode side, with provenance and an interval you can write into a limitations section.

Contact

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Tell us what you are building, which nutrients it needs, and which markets you sell into. We reply with our coverage for those nutrients. We answer every enquiry, most within two working days.

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