Data sources

The values in SALUNOTE’s food library come from public food-composition tables. Each one is named here, as its licence asks.

USDA FoodData Central

Most single foods and ingredients, and the figures our own recipes are computed from. Public domain; we credit it all the same.

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. FoodData Central: SR Legacy (April 2018) and Foundation Foods (April 2026).

Licence: CC0 1.0

ANSES-CIQUAL 2025

A selection of Mediterranean dishes and ingredients, from the French food composition table published by Anses. Values are used unchanged, rounded to one decimal; values the table gives as traces or below its limit of quantification are shown as 0. Anses does not endorse SALUNOTE or this use of its data.

Anses. 2025. Ciqual French food composition table (Table de composition nutritionnelle des aliments Ciqual), version of 3 November 2025. doi:10.57745/RDMHWY

Licence: Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab)

SALUNOTE’s own

The Persian and Mediterranean recipes are SALUNOTE’s, their values computed from the tables above with the method shown on each. The exercise library is written by the Hyrcan Bio Data Team.