Data credits

Servings is built on open data from governments and communities around the world. Thank you to everyone who makes it.

Food and nutrition data

• USDA FoodData Central (SR Legacy, Foundation Foods, FNDDS, Branded Foods): U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. FoodData Central. Public domain.
• Canadian Nutrient File, Health Canada: Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.
• McCance and Widdowson's Composition of Foods Integrated Dataset, UK: Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
• Australian Food Composition Database, Food Standards Australia New Zealand: CC BY 4.0.
• Ciqual, ANSES, France: Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
• Standard Tables of Food Composition in Japan, MEXT: source: Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.
• Frida, Technical University of Denmark (DTU Food): CC BY 4.0.
• Bundeslebensmittelschlüssel (BLS), Max Rubner-Institut, Germany: CC BY 4.0.
• Swedish Food Composition Database, Swedish Food Agency: CC BY 4.0.
• Matvaretabellen, Norwegian Food Safety Authority: source: Matvaretabellen, Mattilsynet.
• Swiss Food Composition Database, Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office: source: naehrwertdaten.ch.
• SG FoodID, Health Promotion Board, Singapore: Contains information from Singapore Food Insights Database (SG FoodID) accessed on 14 November 2026, under the SG FoodID terms of use.
• Open Food Facts: product and ingredient data under the Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0. Our derived ingredient database is available under the same licence on request at team@servings.app.

Recipes

• USDA MyPlate Kitchen: U.S. Department of Agriculture. MyPlate Kitchen. Public domain; no endorsement by USDA is implied.
• TheMealDB: recipes and photos from TheMealDB; each recipe links to its page.
• Recipe photos in the starter cookbook are from Unsplash and Pexels under their licences.

How we use it

Nutrition for recipes is calculated ingredient by ingredient from these tables. Values marked ~ are estimates. Servings is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of these organizations.