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LanguaL Indexed Datasets
	Updated 2019-04-02

LanguaL Indexed Datasets (indexed by US FDA and others)

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• FLAPS (Food Labeling and Package Survey) 1986  -  1490 foods
• FLAPS (Food Labeling and Package Survey) 1988  -  1265 foods
• FLAPS (Food Labeling and Package Survey) 1991  -  1194 foods
• SIREN (Scientific Information Retrieval and Exchange Network)  -  file outdated
• SIREN (Scientific Information Retrieval and Exchange Network)  -  9725 foods - updated 2017-01-24 (formerly legal, now illegal, facet term codes removed)
• Total Diet Study
• Total Diet Study 1990
• Carotenoid Foods file (Agricultural Research Service) - 691 foods indexed for USDA
• USDA Nutrient Database for Standard Reference (Handbook-8) - 5137 foods indexed for USDA
• Berkeley (Univ. of California) foods  -  222 food indexed for UC Berkeley
• Codex Alimentarius food names - 280 foods indexed for FAO/WHO
• French foods  - 1219 foods indexed by CIQUAL, Paris
• Greek foods - 858 foods indexed for University of Athens
• New Zealand foods - 177 foods indexed for  Univ. Sydney, NSW
• Hungarian foods - 2078 foods indexed by University of Budapest, HU
• WHO/GEMS foods (World Health Organization/Global Environmental Monitoring System) - 1250 foods indexed for WHO, Geneva

 

LanguaL Indexed Datasets (indexed by Danish Food Informatics - Jayne Ireland and Anders Møller)

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• USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference (Release 28, released September 2015, slightly revised May 2016)
• Canadian Nutrient File 2015
• Australian food composition dataset - NUTTAB 2010
• New Zealand FOODfiles 2014 version 01

 

Specialized Datasets

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• FDA precombined Terms - 552 generic foods
• InformAll - 726 foods indexed
• GEMS FOOD Codex CCPR Food Classification - 1549 foods
• EuroFIR Traditional Foods - 64 foods
• FoodEx2 to LanguaL mapping - 3223 descriptors (file created by Jayne Ireland with comments to EFSA in 2014; LanguaL tab delimited format) 
• Mapping between EFSA Food Classification and Desription System for Exposure Assessment (EFSA FoodEx2, September 2017) and LanguaL™ 2017 - the FoodEx2 hierarchy (file created by Jayne Ireland, April 2018).
• Mapping between EFSA Food Classification and Desription System for Exposure Assessment (EFSA FoodEx2, September 2017) and LanguaL™ 2017 - the FoodEx2 facets (Excel file created by Jayne Ireland, July 2018).

 

EuroFIR LanguaL Indexed Datasets (indexed by EuroFIR Members)

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• AT - UVI (2009-09-16) - 514 foods
• BE - Nubel (2007-07-30) - 944 foods
• BG - NCH (2006-01-20) - 726 foods
• CH - SwissFIR - ETHZ (2009-09-16) - 452 foods
• CZ - UZEI (2018-11-28) - 888 foods
• DE - BLS - IMR (2007-04-19) - 1034 foods
• DK - DFI NDS (2007-04-19) - 340 foods
• DK - DTU (2008-06-26) - 1473 foods
• ES - UGR (2008-05-30) - 660 foods
• FI - Fineli - THL (2009-12-09) - 2095 foods
• FR - Ciqual - ANSES (2008-06-06) - 1294 foods
• FR - Ciqual - ANSES (2018-04-18) - 2807 foods.
• GR - NKUA (2007-07-31) - 901 foods
• GR - HHF subset (2008-09-27) - 219 foods
• IE - UCC (2008-03-09) - 305 foods
• IL - BGU (2008-03-09) - 1925 foods
• IS - ÍSGEM - MATIS (2008-01-21) - 1151 foods
• IT - INRAN (2009-04-06) - 900 foods
• IT - ISPO (2010-03-17) - 1419 foods
• LT - NNC (2009-07-28) - 1159 foods
• LV - FVS-FC (2010-03-17) - 621 foods
• NL - RIVM-NEVO (2008-05-22) - 2311 foods
• NO - MVT (2008-08-25) - 1188 foods
• PL - NFNI (2007-06-15) - 932 foods
• PT - INSA (2008-01-10) - 962 foods
• SE - NFA (2007-04-26) - 601 foods
• SK - FRI (2009-07-10) - 1400 foods
• SR - IMR (2007-09-18) - 1141 foods
• TR - TUBITAK (2010-03-02) - 1137 foods
• UK - IFR (2007-09-18) - 3424 foods

 

News

New version of the Svedish Food Composition Database 2026-07-03 The Swedish Food Composition Database has been updated with new data for fats, dairy products and eggs. For more information, see the Swedish food composition database.

New Danish Food Composition Database 2026-06-02 The National Food Institute of Denmark (DTU) has updated the Danish Food Composition Database with a new comprehensive user interface, see the new site.

NEW FAO/INFOODS food composition website 2026-04-15 The new website includes updated information on INFOODS, including data centres and current coordinators. For more information, see FAO/INFOODS website.

The German BLS 4.0 is now fully available free of charge 2026-03-23 The new release covers 7,140 foods and expands nutrient information to 138 components. For more information, see BLS 4.0.