Explore four food-composition databases side by side: Health Canada’s Canadian Nutrient File (CNF — 5,993 foods, 150+ nutrients), FAO/INFOODS’ West African Food Composition Table 2019 (WAFCT — 1,028 foods including fonio, baobab, dawadawa, gari, egusi, and other West African staples), USDA FoodData Central (FDC — 13,620 US foods spanning Foundation, SR Legacy, and Survey FNDDS), and ANSES’ CIQUAL 2025 (~3,484 French foods, pairing with Agribalyse 3.2 LCA via shared Ciqual codes). Search, compare, and analyze across any one source or all of them at once.
Use Researcher mode in the toolbar on any explorer page. Open a food profile to see which nutrients each published measure reads, then add it to all scores at your chosen portion size.
Find foods by name, group, or AI match across CNF, WAFCT, and FDC.
Lens nutrient panels show what healthy eating, star ratings, Food Compass, and health impact draw from the catalogue.
Select up to six foods and contrast key nutrients side by side.
Send foods to all scores for healthy eating, health impact, star ratings, Food Compass, environment, and eating style.
Find foods by iron, fibre, sodium, and other nutrient ranges
Search CNF + WAFCT + FDC + CIQUAL with filters and relevance scoring
Compare nutritional content across databases
CNF + WAFCT + FDC + CIQUAL counts, group distribution, data quality
Explore foods by CNF, WAFCT, or FDC food group
Intelligent search with relevance scoring, pagination, and comprehensive filtering options. The source filter scopes to any one of CNF, WAFCT, or FDC — or searches all three at once.
Compare nutritional profiles of multiple foods side-by-side across all four databases. Cross-database comparisons surface per-source provenance badges so methodological differences stay visible.
Statistics across four food-composition databases — Health Canada CNF (5,993 foods), FAO/INFOODS WAFCT 2019 (1,028 West African foods), USDA FoodData Central (13,620 US foods: Foundation, SR Legacy, FNDDS), and ANSES CIQUAL 2025 (~3,484 French foods).
Dive into four food-composition databases — Canadian, West African, US, and French — and discover detailed nutritional information for over twenty-four thousand foods.