The Australia database starts from AUSNUT 2023, the official Australian food composition survey published by Food Standards Australia New Zealand. Every food's nutrition comes from that government data, unchanged.
On top of it, we curate the things that make day-to-day tracking work:
- Plain names. "Crepe or pancake, plain, made from dry mix & water" becomes "Crepe, made from dry mix" — and the official name stays on the food's record, so nothing is lost.
- Real-life measures. Cups, bowls, glasses, slices and pieces with honest weights. Where the Australian data has no weight for a measure, we use the published weight from the US Department of Agriculture's food survey for the equivalent food, converted to Australian sizes — never a guess.
- Standard serves. Where the Australian Dietary Guidelines define a standard serve for a food, it's there.
- Both names you might search. A crepe and a pancake, a sandwich and a roll each get their own entry; a doughnut is found whichever way you spell it.
Every one of the 3,741 foods was reviewed by hand before publishing. Measures that are estimates rather than government figures are labelled as estimates on the food's detail view, and brand foods that inherit their nutrition from a generic say so.
The unchanged official datasets (AUSNUT 2023 and others) are also available under Government Databases in your profile's food database setting — see Choose a food database.