Food Composition Data on the Internet

This section contains links to food composition related information on the World Wide Web.

The page makes use of the food composition data information maintained and updated by LanguaL.org.
The data reside in an XML file provided by LanguaL.org and can be read at the URL http://www.langual.org/FoodCompositionLinks.xml.

Albania

First Albanian food composition tables (2022) published with assistance from NPPC-VÚP in the frame of the Slovak Republic Official Development Support Programme [downloads as pdf file].

Argentina

ARGENFOODS - Tabla de Composición de Alimentos

Armenia

Food Composition Table for Armenia by Karine Babikyan [available from FAO INFOODS website]

ASEAN

ASEAN Food Composition Tables

Australia

Brand Miller et al - Tables of Composition of Australian Aboriginal Foods [Google Books]
FSANZ - Australian Food Composition Database (January 2019)
FSANZ - The Nutrition Panel Calculator

Austria

ÖNWT - Die österreichische Nährwerttabelle (The Austrian Food Composition Table)
Michael Murkovic et al. - Carotenoids in Austrian Vegetables [Internet Archive]
Michael Murkovic et al. - Carotenoids in Austrian Pumpkins [Internet Archive]

Bahrain

Food Composition Tables for Kingdom of Bahrain

Bangladesh

Ministry of Food (FPMU) - A food composition database for Bangladesh with special reference to selected ethnic foods [Google Books]
University of Dhaka - Food Composition Table for Bangladesh [pdf file]

Belgium

INTERNUBEL - Belgian food composition brand name database
NUBEL - Belgian Food Composition Data

Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition

Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition - Species Database

Brazil

TBCA - Tabela Brasileira de Composição de Alimentos
TACO - Tabela Brasileira de Composição de Alimentos 4a. Edição revisada e ampliada
Tabelas de Composição Nutricional dos Alimentos Consumidos no Brasil

Canada

CINE's Arctic Nutrient File
FooDB Version 1.0
Health Canada - Canadian Nutrient File
Traditional Animal Foods of Indigenous Peoples of Northern North America

Chile

Ministerio de Salud - Composición de Alimentos
Tabla de Composición química de alimentos chilenos
Universidad de Chile - INTA - Tabla de Composición de Alimentos 2018

China - People's Republic of China

China Food Composition - Book 1, 2nd Edition, 2009 [Internet Archive]
China Food Composition - Book 2, 2004 [Internet Archive]
The Chinese University of Hong Kong - Food Research Centre - Food Composition Database

Colombia

Tabla de composición de alimentos colombianos [Internet Archive]

COST Action 99

COST Action 99 - Eurofoods Research Action on Food Consumption and Composition Data (1995-1999) - Publications

Costa Rica

Inciensa - Tabla de Composición de Alimentos de Costa Rica
Inciensa - Tabla de Composición de Alimentos de Costa Rica (Ácidos grasos) )
Inciensa - Tabla de Composición de Alimentos de Costa Rica (Alimentos fortificados)
Inciensa - Tabla de Composición de Alimentos de Costa Rica (Carotenoides y tocoferoles)
Inciensa - Tabla de Composición de Alimentos de Costa Rica (Macronutrientes y fibra dietética) )

Cyprus

Ministry of Health, State General Laboratory - Yiannopoulos et al. - Cyprus Food Composition Tables, December 2013.

Czech Republic

Czech Centre for Food Composition Database (2020) - On-line Czech Food Composition Database, Version 8.20 - NutriDatabaze.cz
Food Composition Database at National Institute of Public Health [Internet Archive]

Denmark

Danish Food Composition Database
Danish Food Composition Tables (pdf version for education, 4th edition)

EFSA

European Food Safety Authority - Food Composition Data

Estonia

NutriData – Estonian food composition database

Ethiopia

Ethiopian Nutrition Institute - Expanded Food Composition Table for use in Ethiopia, 1981

EuroFIR - European Food Information Resource Network

EuroFIR Communications Platform
EuroFIR FoodEXplorer - Interface for food composition data
EuroFIR ePlantLIBRA - Database containing information about plant- and plant-food supplements
EuroFIR eBASIS - Bioactive Substances in Food Information Systems

FAO

Amino-acid Content of Foods and Biological Data on Proteins, FAO, Rome, 1970
FAO/INFOODS Analytical Food Composition Database Version 1.1 (AnFooD1.1) [pdf file]
FAO/INFOODS Analytical Food Composition Database Version 2.0 (AnFooD2.0)
FAO/INFOODS Density Database - Version 1
FAO/INFOODS Density Database - Version 2
FAO/INFOODS Food Composition Database for Biodiversity - Version 4.0 (BioFoodComp4.0)
FAO/INFOODS Global Database for Pulses on Dry Matter Basis – version 1.0 (PulsesDM1.0) - 2017
FAO/INFOODS Global food composition database for fish and shellfish – version 1.0 (uFiSh1.0) - 2016
FAO/INFOODS/IZiNCG Global Food Composition Database for Phytate – Version 1.0 (PhyFoodComp1.0) - 2018
FAO/INFOODS/TGI Global supplement database - Version 1
Food Composition Tables for International Use, FAO, Rome, 1953
Food Composition Tables for the Near East, FAO, Rome, 1982
Food Composition Tables for Use in Africa, FAO, Rome, 1968
Food Composition Tables for Use in East Asia, FAO, Rome, 1972

Faroe Islands

Marita Poulsen - Faroese Food Composition Tables, The Food, Veterinary and Environmental Agency, 1995.
Marita Poulsen - Føroyskar føðslutalvur, Heilsufrøðiliga Starvsstovan 1995

Finland

Finnish Food Composition Database - FINELI

France

ANSES/Ciqual French food composition table
OQALI - Observatoire de la qualité de l'alimentation
Phenol-Explorer - Database on polyphenol content in foods

Germany

German Nutrient Database: BLS online portal - Bundeslebensmittelschlüssel
Souci-Fachmann-Kraut Online Database

Greece

Hellenic Health Foundation: Composition tables of foods and Greek dishes [Internet Archive]
Medical School of Crete: Food composition tables of Greek foods [Internet Archive]
Nutrinet Food Classification

Iceland

Icelandic food composition database - ÍSGEM [Matís]

ILSI

International Life Sciences Institute - Crop Composition Database

INCAP

Tabla de Composición de los Alimentos de Centroamérica

India

Indian Food Composition Database [pdf file]
Indian Council of Agricultural Research - Nutrient Profiling and Evaluation of Fish as a Dietary Component (NutriFishIN)
Indian-Nutrient-Databank-INDB- on GitHub

INFOODS

International Network of Food Data Systems

International

International Nutrient Databank Directory [Internet Archive]

Iran

Iranian Food Composition Table, 2017 [Included in EuroFIR FoodEXplorer]

Iraq

Food Composition Table for Iraq [in EuroFIR FoodEXplorer]

Ireland

University College Cork, Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences: Irish Food Composition Database [Internet Archive]

Israel

Israeli Food Composition Database [Internet Archive]

Italy

Food Composition database for Epidemiological Studies in Italy (online searchable, Italian and English)
Tabelle di composizione degli alimenti - CREA

Japan

Ministry of education, culture, sports science and technology of Japan (MEXT) - Standard Tables of Food Composition in Japan - 2015 - (Seventh Revised Version)

Kenya

Kenya Food Composition Tables 2018

Korea

Korean Standard Food Composition Table

Kuwait

Kuwaiti food composition tables - Composite dishes, 2018 [pdf file]
Kuwaiti food composition tables - Composite dishes, 2018 [in EuroFIR FoodEXplorer]

Kyrgyzstan

Jamila Smanalieva, Janyl Iskakova, Mukaram Musulmanova, Anna Giertlová - Kyrgyzstan’s Food Composition Table (downloadble pdf document published 6 June 2022)

LATINFOODS

Portal de Composición de Alimentos LATINFOODS
Tabla de Composición de Alimentos por país

Latvia

Latvian Food Composition Database

Lithuania

Suciliene S, Abaravicius A, Kadziauskiene K, Barzda A, Bartkeviciute R: Maisto produktu˛ Respublikinis mitybos centras, 2002 (printed table 324 pp. In Lithuanian and English, 2002)

Malawi

MAFOODS. 2019. Malawian Food Composition Table. 1st Edition.
Averalda van Graan, Joelaine Chetty, Malory Jumat, Sitilitha Masangwi, Agnes Mwangwela, Felix Pensulo Phiri, Lynne M. Ausman, Shibani Ghosh, Elizabeth Marino-Costello (Eds). Lilongwe, Malawi.

Malaysia

Malaysian Food Composition Database (MyFCD)

Morocco

Nutritional composition of fast food traditional dishes and processed foods available in Morocco, 2018 [in EuroFIR FoodEXplorer]

Mozambique

Korkalo , L , Hauta-alus , H & Mutanen , M 2011 , Food composition tables for Mozambique : Version 2 [pdf file] Version 2 [downloads as pdf file]

Nepal

National Nutrition Program - Food Composition Tables for Nepal 2012.

Netherlands

Dutch Food Composition Database (NEVO)

New Zealand

The New Zealand Institute of Plant & Food Research Limited - New Zealand Food Composition Database (NZFCDB)
The New Zealand Institute of Plant & Food Research Limited - New Zealand FOODfiles
Food Standards Australia New Zealand - Nutrition Panel Calculator
Food Standards Australia New Zealand - Food composition databases
The New Zealand Institute of Plant & Food Research Limited - The Concise New Zealand Food Composition Tables
Peter Vlieg: Proximate Composition of New Zealand Marine Finfish and Shellfish, New Zealand Institute for Crop & Food Research, 1988

Nigeria

Nigeria Food Database

NORFOODS

NORFOODS 2000

Norway

The Norwegian Food Composition Database. Norwegian Food Safety Authority, The Norwegian Directorate of Health and University of Oslo.
Institute of Marine Research - Seafood Data

Pacific Islands

Pacific Islands Food Composition Tables, Second Edition, FAO, Rome, 2004. [full text, html]
Pacific Islands Food Composition Tables, Second Edition, FAO, Rome, 2004. [pdf file]

Pakistan

Food composition Table For Pakistan [pdf file]

Peru

Tabla de Composición de Alimentos Industrializados
Tablas Peruanas de Composición de Alimentos (TPCA)

Philippines

Philippine Food Composition Tables (you need to register at http://i.fnri.dost.gov.ph/ first)

Poland

National Food and Nutrition Institute - Tables of Nutritional Value of Products and Dishes

Portugal

INSA - Tabela da Composição de Alimentos (PortFIR)

Puerto Rico

Tabla de composición de alimentos de uso corriente en Puerto Rico

Serbia

Serbian Food and Nutrition Database

Singapore

Health Promotion Board - Energy & Nutrient Composition of Foods

Slovak Republic

Slovak Food Composition Data Bank (SFCDB)

SMILING project

Assessment of food composition data in five SEA Partner Countries (Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam).

South Africa

SAFOODS - South African Food Data System
SAFOODS - Food Composition Database [uses unsupported protocol]

Spain

Base de Datos Española de Composición de Alimentos - BEDCA
Tabula - Tablas de Composición des Alimentos y Bebidas de España - CEU
Universidad de Granada - Tabla de Composición de Alimentos
Olga Moreiras - Tablas de Composición de Alimentos
CESNID - Tablas de Composición de Alimentos de CESNID
A. Jimenez Cruz et al - Tabla de Composición de Alimentos - Novartis [pdf file]

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka Food Composition Tables, Department of Nutrition, Medical Research Centre, 2021 [pdf file]

Sweden

Livsmedelsdatabas (Swedish Food Composition Database)

Switzerland

Swiss Federal Office of Public Health FOPH - Swiss Food Composition Database version 6.4

Tanzania

Tanzania Food Composition Tables

Thailand

Mahidol University, Institute of Nutrition - Thai Food Composition Database (Thai FCD 2015)

Tunisia

El Ati et al - Table de composition des aliments tunisiens [pdf file]

Turkey

TürKomp - Turkish Food Composition Database

Uganda

HarvestPlus - Hotz et al.: A Food Composition Table for Central and Eastern Uganda [pdf file]

United Kingdom

Food Databanks National Capability (FDNC) /IFR Food Databanks Platform
Food Databanks National Capability extended dataset based on PHE's McCance and Widdowson's Composition of Foods Integrated Dataset.
Public Health England - McCance and Widdowson's The Composition of Foods integrated dataset 2019
InformAll Database - searchable database with information on allergenic foods
FSA - Foodbase - Food Standards Agency's open access repository [British Web Archives]
FSA - MAFF Archive, UK Food Surveillance Information sheets (1993-2000) [British Web Archives]
FSA - UK Food Survey Information sheets (2000 - ) [British Web Archives]

Uruguay

MTSS - Tabla de Composición de Alimentos de Uruguay [pdf file]

USA

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service - FoodData Central
USDA ARS - Methods and Application of Food Composition Laboratory: Beltsville, MD
USDA ARS - Methods and Application of Food Composition Laboratory: Beltsville, MD - Analytical Methods Research (AMR)
USDA ARS - Methods and Application of Food Composition Laboratory: Beltsville, MD - Food and Nutrient Research Group (FNR)
USDA ARS - Methods and Application of Food Composition Laboratory: Beltsville, MD - Database Resources
USDA ARS - Methods and Application of Food Composition Laboratory: Beltsville, MD - Historic Documents
USDA Classics - Atwater and Woods: The Chemical Composition of American Food Materials, USDA 1896 [pdf file]
USDA Classics - USDA Agriculture Handbook No. 74: Merrill & Watt - Energy Value of Foods - Basis and Derivation, February 1973 [pdf file]
USDA Classics - USDA Agriculture Handbook No. 102: Food Yields - Sommarized by different stages of preparation. Revised September 1972.
USDA Home and Garden Bulletin 72 - Nutritive Value of Foods (HG 72) [pdf file]
Harriet V. Kuhnlein and Murray M. Humphries, 2017 - Traditional Animal Foods of Indigenous Peoples of Northern North America. Centre for Indigenous Peoples’ Nutrition and Environment, McGill University, Montreal.
Alaska Traditional Knowledge and Native Foods Database
NutritionData's Food Facts [Internet Archive]

Venezuela

Tabla de composición de alimentos para uso práctico y alores de referencia de energía y nutrientes para la población venezolana
Tabla de Composición de Alimentos de Venezuela [Internet Archive]

Vietnam

Vietnamese Food Composition Table [pdf file]

West Africa

FAO/INFOODS Food Composition Table for Western Africa (2019) / Table de composition des aliments FAO/INFOODS pour l’Afrique de l’Ouest (2019) - User Guide [pdf file]
FAO/INFOODS Food Composition Table for Western Africa (2019) / Table de composition des aliments FAO/INFOODS pour l’Afrique de l’Ouest (2019) [MS Excel spreadsheet]
West African Food Composition Table / Table de composition des aliments d’Afrique de l’Ouest - FAO, INFOODS, ECOWAS/WAHO and Bioversity International. FAO, 2012 [pdf file]
Composition of Selected Foods from West Africa - FAO, ECOWAS, WAHO, INFOODS and Bioversity International. FAO, 2010 [pdf file]

World Food Programme

Food Aid Information System - Food Composition Table (Programme discontinued) [pdf file]