The food catalog provided by this service is one of the most complete, accurate, and up-to-date nutrition databases in the English-speaking world. We use our food catalog for high-quality calorie counting and nutrition analysis delivered to millions of our diet app users. As this platform provides a comprehensive diet tracking service, we understand how inaccurate food labels can undermine the entire process of tracking, analyzing, and planning a diet. Many years of rigorous food research resulted in a robust data product:
- Over 2,000,000 foods in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and Australia.
- 2,423 restaurants among 3,478 vendors, including well-known brands, restaurants, fast food chains, supermarkets, special diets, ethnic foods, and common USDA foods. See our vendor list.
- 899,000 UPC barcodes are assigned to the majority of popular packaged foods.
- Food popularity rank based on food logging by millions of users. We know what people eat.
- More than 100 nutrients per food, on average 12 nutrients per food.
- Up to 10 serving types per food. We fight duplicates and normalize the data.
- Food icons for most foods help you create beautiful, readable food lists.
Enjoy our Instant Food Search by Name, or Scan the barcode with our free mobile apps. The Search by Name works by multiple words in any order, partial words, food synonyms, abbreviations, and phonetic similarity. Brand names and food categories are searched along with food names. Search results highlight matched user inputs. Search results are ranked by popularity among millions of diet app users. It suggests the most relevant foods.
Food Data Research Team works 24/7 and processes phtoofood requests (reports from the users who noticed food anomaly) in 24 hours. All food updates are immediately available on your application and web. We add and verify about 300 foods every day. Our continuous food research and popularity ranking help us keep the database up-to-date. We research foods on demand for users sending PhotoFood requests via mobile app. We fight duplicates and research multiple servings per food whenever possible.
A Look Under The Hood: Nutrition Research Process
Check out the research system here and see how much attention we give to the completeness and correctness of the data and how many data rules are implemented by our research team. We automate data validation as much as possible, but it still takes a human to ensure quality. Every change is double-checked by our quality assurance team. Keeping the catalog up-to-date is challenging since the food industry is a dynamic, ever-changing world: food vendors sell and buy brands, change their name while growing the business, change servings and clarify their nutrition labels over time. We meet these challenges with continuous monitoring and periodic, prioritized verification of such vendors and brands.
PhotoFood requests are processed within 24 hours or faster. We add hundreds of foods every day while removing obsolete or duplicated foods. It's a live catalog. It is hard to avoid duplication because of re-packaging and re-branding of the same products and their slight variations. We remove any duplicates within 24 hours after notice. We work with restaurants and food companies to add and update their menus and products in our food database. If you notice that our database is missing some restaurant or a food company, please create new custom food and submit a Photofood request or Restaurant Update request. We'll include it in the database. Other data sources include the USDA Standard Reference database and data from literature sources.