Ainonymity Calorie Counter · Food data
A verified food database, offline on your phone.
Published
Ingredient search does not use a crowd-sourced database. It uses six national food composition tables published by government agencies — laboratory-analyzed, 30,948 foods in total — bundled with the app and working with no connection at all.
Nobody uploads an entry to these. Nobody’s guess is in them. Each is named, versioned and credited below under its own licence, and you can pick which one search uses.
The six tables
United States
USDA FoodData Central
13,036 foods
Public domain (CC0 1.0). Attribution is not required, but the USDA asks that FoodData Central be credited as the source.
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. FoodData Central. fdc.nal.usda.gov.
Canada
Canadian Nutrient File 2026
5,993 foods
Open Government Licence – Canada.
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada. Source: Canadian Nutrient File 2026, Health Canada. Not an official version; use does not imply endorsement by Health Canada.
Australia
Australian Food Composition Database & AUSNUT 2023
4,128 foods
CC BY-SA 3.0 AU. Commercial use permitted; derivatives share the same licence.
AUSNUT 2023 and the Australian Food Composition Database, © Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ), licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 AU.
France
Ciqual (ANSES) 2025
3,323 foods
Etalab Open Licence 2.0. Requires crediting the source and the date of the data.
Anses. 2025. Ciqual French food composition table.
United Kingdom
McCance & Widdowson’s CoFID 2021
3,248 foods
Open Government Licence v3.0.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Public Health England (2021). McCance and Widdowson’s The Composition of Foods Integrated Dataset (CoFID).
Switzerland
Swiss Food Composition Database V7.0 (2025)
1,220 foods
Free use including commercial use, subject to acknowledgment of the source.
Source: Swiss Food Composition Database V7.0 (2025), Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office (FSVO), Switzerland. naehrwertdaten.ch
The barcode scanner is a seventh dataset
Packaged foods come from the Branded Foods portion of USDA FoodData Central — a 63.6 MB database of 453,750 products stored on your device, matched by the barcode on the packet. It is free, it spends no credits, and it contacts no server.
The values are the manufacturer’s own, submitted to the USDA, so treat them exactly as you would the printed label. It is a United States dataset: the brands in it are mostly American, though many are sold internationally. When a barcode is not found, the app offers the nutrition label scanner instead, which works for any product anywhere — that one is an AI analysis and costs a credit.
Why this matters
A food database is the one part of a calorie tracker you cannot see working. If an entry is wrong, every figure built on it is wrong too, and nothing on screen tells you.
Government composition tables are laboratory-analyzed and published with their methods. That does not make them perfect — composition varies by season, batch and preparation, and FSANZ says so explicitly in its own notes. It does mean every number has a traceable origin, which is the property we wanted.
Where your food data comes from is one of the reasons calorie apps give different numbers. For how the daily target itself is worked out, see how a calorie target is calculated; for Australian labels, kilojoules and calories.