For software developers

Why do you need food composition data?

For software developers providing programmes and tools to work with nutritional information on food, high quality, official food composition data are essential to underpin these products. Ultimately the outputs of the product will only be as good as the data used by the software.

Many recipe, diet or menu planning software tools are based in a particular country and so use the national food composition data from that country. However, for any particular country’s dataset it is likely that there will be some products that are not included, for which data is out of date, or that some nutritional values may be missing. In addition, with an increasingly global food supply it may be that those who are using food composition-based software may be looking for information on products outside their own country.

The benefit of using the EuroFIR standardised food composition data is that it includes the most up to date, official data from across Europe and beyond.

For more information about which food information is available via EuroFIR AISBL, have a look on the EuroFIR eSearch facility or contact our Research and Development Manager, Simone Bell.