Data Sources

Recipinned’s nutrition values come from public food databases. This page lists them and the terms they are shared under.

USDA FoodData Central

Most foods in the Food Database come from USDA FoodData Central. The data is in the public domain.

Open Food Facts

Some foods, such as chocolate chips or nutritional yeast, are not in the USDA data. For these we use the median of many US products in Open Food Facts.

Contains information from Open Food Facts, which is made available here under the Open Database License (ODbL).

The aggregated values we derive from Open Food Facts, and the method we use to compute them, are available under the ODbL. Write to [email protected] and we will send them to you.

Estimates

Nutrition values in Recipinned are estimates. They depend on the foods and amounts matched to your recipe, and they are not medical or dietary advice.