Food data sources
AIO's food search and barcode lookups use our own food database, built from the open sources below. Foods users submit and we accept are added as AIO community data.
Open Food Facts
Food product data from Open Food Facts contributors, available under the Open Database License (ODbL 1.0); contents under the Database Contents License (DbCL 1.0). https://world.openfoodfacts.org/
USDA FoodData Central
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. Public domain (CC0 1.0). https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/
Canadian Nutrient File
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada (Canadian Nutrient File, Health Canada). https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/1b6139bd-ed7e-4043-bc28-ff00e10f3109
Ciqual
Anses. Table de composition nutritionnelle des aliments Ciqual 2025. Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0. https://ciqual.anses.fr/
Bundeslebensmittelschlüssel (BLS) 4.0
Max Rubner-Institut (2025): Bundeslebensmittelschlüssel (BLS), Version 4.0 – Deutsche Nährstoffdatenbank. Karlsruhe. CC BY 4.0. https://www.blsdb.de/
CoFID 2021
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (McCance and Widdowson's Composition of Foods Integrated Dataset). https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/composition-of-foods-integrated-dataset-cofid
Australian Food Composition Database
Food Standards Australia New Zealand (2025) Australian Food Composition Database – Release 3. CC BY-SA 3.0 AU. Food composition data may represent an average of the nutrient content of a particular sample of foods and ingredients, determined at a particular time; values for a given food may vary. https://www.foodstandards.gov.au/science-data/food-nutrient-databases/afcd
日本食品標準成分表（八訂）増補2023年
日本食品標準成分表（八訂）増補2023年より引用 (Standard Tables of Food Composition in Japan, MEXT). https://www.mext.go.jp/a_menu/syokuhinseibun/mext_00001.html
Matvaretabellen
Norwegian Food Composition Table. The Norwegian Food Safety Authority. www.matvaretabellen.no. NLOD 2.0. https://www.matvaretabellen.no/
Swiss Food Composition Database
Swiss Food Composition Database, Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office FSVO (naehrwertdaten.ch). https://naehrwertdaten.ch/
Livsmedelsdatabasen
Source: Swedish Food Agency (Livsmedelsverket), Livsmedelsdatabasen. CC BY 4.0. https://www.livsmedelsverket.se/en/about-us/open-data/food-composition-data/
Downloads
The databases we derive from share-alike sources, published under the same licences.
Open Food Facts, as served in AIO (ODbL 1.0, JSON Lines, gzip, about 170 MB) · licence and changes
Open Food Facts, with names merged from other sources (ODbL 1.0, about 370 MB) · licence and changes
Australian Food Composition Database, as served in AIO (CC BY-SA 3.0 AU) · licence and changes
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