Food Composition Tables in the World

In this article, I’d like to introduce food composition tables in the world with on-line web-site. I’m happy if you share more information about other site with me.

  • Northern Europe
    • Finland
    • Norway
    • Sweden
  • Western Europe
    • Belgium
    • Denmark
    • Netherlands
    • France
    • Germany
    • Switzerland
    • Iceland
    • United Kingdom
  • Eastern Europe
    • Czech Republic
    • Estonia
    • Poland
    • Serbia
    • Slovakia
  • Southern Europe
    • Greece
    • Italy
    • Portugal
    • Spain
  • Middle East, Africa
    • Bahrain
    • Israel
    • Middle/Near East
    • Mozambique
    • South Africa
    • Turkey
    • West Africa
  • North America, South America
    • Canada
    • USA
    • Brazil
    • Latin America
  • Oceania
    • Australia
    • New Zealand
    • Pacific Islands
  • Asia
    • China
    • Malaysia
    • Singapore
    • Japan
    • Thailand
    • Vietnam

Finland

THL

Foods greater than 3400, 54 components. I couldn’t download data file. Rich link forward other country’s food composition tables.

Norway

The Norwegian Food Composition Table

13 food groups, 1305 foods and 36 components. It’s available for download.

Sweden

NFA Food Composition Database

Click “Search nutrient content in food” button below page, click icon of EXCEL and you can download csv file. Great!

Belgium

NUBEL

1200 foods and 32 components. You need to pay for data.

Denmark

Danish Food Composition Databank

You can download all data with Microsoft Access 2000 or Microsoft EXCEL version 5.0.

Netherlands

NEVO online

Or they would post you EXCEL file with all data if you send form from Request dataset.

France

French food composition table Table Ciqual 2012

You can download from this site csv file or mdb file.

Germany

MRI

Approximately 10,000 foods and 137 components. Read license agreement. Or you can use the Souci Fachmann Kraut Online Database. 800 foods and 260 components. Trial period is 30 days.

Switzerland

Swiss Food Composition Database

13 food groups, 1109 foods and 38 components. Click “Downloads” in left column to download xlsx file.

Iceland

ISGEM

The food composition table of Iceland, provided by MATÍS, seems to be similar to Japanese Food Composition Table. Provided PDF files for each food groups, with protection by password security, respectively. It seems to be 17 food groups.

Or you can purchase at EuroFIR with 15 euros if you visit University College Cork.

United Kingdom

McCance and Widdowson’s The Composition of Foods integrated dataset

Click “Related links” in the middle of page and you can download EXCEL file with 11 MB size and 16 sheets. 13 food groups and 3423 foods.

Czech Republic

Czech Food Composition Database, Version 2.11

13 food groups. You can’t download data file, but reference list is substantial. For example, “McCance and Widdowson’s The Composition of Foods integrated dataset (CoF IDS)” of UK, or “the Ciqual 2012 Table” of France.

Estonia

NutriData – Estonian food composition database

 72 foods and 59 components.

Poland

National Food and Nutrition Institute

Click orange link in right column. 3 steps access level, you need to pay for all 932 foods data and they post EXCEL file in CD-ROM!

Serbia

Department of Nutritional Research (DNR)

You seem to need to log-in and search with Serbia food composition table. But I couldn’t find registration form.

Slovakia

Slovak Food Composition Data Bank (SFCDB)

1419 foods and 52 components.

Greece

COMPOSITION TABLES OF FOODS AND GREEK DISHES

It’s amusing to view Greece food composition table. Instead of citing in the references like Finland, it’s described that they have referred to UK food composition table on site top.

Italy

Tabelle di composizione degli alimenti

Food composition table of Italy has 935 foods, 70 % of them is cited from Europian Institute of Oncology, 30 % is independent survey. GO to Data Search/By Food Group in left column, then you can view all data. Published in 1998 and 2008.

Portugal

TABELA DA COMPOSIÇÃO DE ALIMENTOS

14 food groups and 962 foods. I couldn’t download all data.

Spain

Base de Datos Española de Composición de Alimentos

I have been warned on above page by Google Chrome that security certificate is not trusted. You can enter from “Consulta/Query” on right above the page. 13 food groups, 998 foods and 43 components. I couldn’t download all data.

Bahrain

FOOD COMPOSITON TABLES FOR BAHRAIN

15 food groups and 34 components.

Israel

Ben Gurion University of the Negev

Ben Gurion University of the Negev provides service with simple interface. When you have downloaded “BGU recipe program”, mdb file of Microsoft Access, you could enter recipe in Hebrew and English.

Middle/Near East

food composition tables for the near east

14 food groups, 848 foods and 20 components.

Mozambique

Nutrition research in Mozambique

12 food groups, 410 foods and 35 components. You can download PDF file.

South Africa

South African Medical Research Council

Food composition table of South Africa has tangled link. 4th paragraph of analytical and bibliographic databases, South African Food composition database or Advanced Food composition database is target page. It seems that it had been available for download all data previously, but was not available recently.

Turkey

Turkish Food Composition Database

Turkish food composition database is beta version.

West Africa

Composition of Selected Foods from West Africa

It’s available for download PDF file with 13 food groups and 30 components.

Canada

Canadian Nutrient File (CNF), 2010

Canadian site is intelligent. It’s available for download data file and data structure is clear on the site, it seems to be easy to construct relational database.

USA

the Nutrient Data Laboratory

You can download food composition table of USA as Windows application. If you needed other type file, you could download from USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference with 8.6 MB ASCII file or 21 MB Access file. ASCII file is compressed in zip format with text files and a PDF document, which describes file format and data structure after p26.

Brazil

Tabela de Brasileira de Composição de Alimentos

Food composition table of Brazil provides 1205 foods. It seems that you can’t download data file.

Latin America

Red Latinoamericana de Composición de Alimentos

17 food groups, 443 foods and 24 components. You can’t download data file, but you can view all data on site. This site has links to other Latin America countries.

Australia

NUTTAB 2010

Food composition table of Australia is easy to use and view all data, 19 food groups, 2190 foods and 196 components, with web browser. You can’t download data. You need to register.

New Zealand

New Zealand Food Composition Data for Nutrition Information Panel (NZFCD-NIP)

2700 foods and 7 major components. Windows application is available. It seems that you need to register.

Pacific Islands

The Pacific Islands food composition tables

20 food groups, 882 foods and 22 components. The table is available for download or viewing.

China

China Food Nutrition Network

22 food groups and 14 components. It’s heavy site and mainly written in Chinese.

Malaysia

Malaysian Foods Composition Database; //www.nutriweb.org.my/searchfood.php

Link to food composition table of Malaysia is broken.

Singapore

What’s Eating Singapore

Site of Health Promotion Board is advanced. There are 4 tools on “Health tools” at lower right corner of the page. Energy and Nutrient Composition of Food provides components of each food, Recipe Analysis calculates components of each dish and Food Intake Assessment assess weekly intake from your gender, age and body weight. It’s surprising that they have released smart phone application, BuUuk.

Japan

Report of the Subdivision on Resources The Council for Science and Technology Ministry of Education, Culture, sports, Science and Technology, JAPAN

18 food groups, 1878 foods and 50 components. It’s very difficult to use and convert to database. If you’d like to use immediately, it’s available in my blog, CSV file of the ‘Standard Tables of Food Composition in Japan 2010′.

Thailand

BUREAU OF NUTRITION

In Thailand, they seem to be sensitive to lack of iodine. They have food composition table about 13 food groups and usual 18 components, fatty acid and cholesterol and amino acid.

Vietnam

VIETNAMESE FOOD COMPOSITION TABLE

14 food groups, 526 foods and 86 components.

References:
Food composition databases
National Diet Library of Japan
DTU Food
International food composition table/database directory