Food data sources & credits
Where FoodSussed food information comes from, and the credit each source requires.
Last updated: 15 October 2026
Food data can change. Check the pack when a value matters, especially for allergens, ingredients and serving sizes.
FoodSussed brings together different sources because no single food database covers every product people see in Irish and UK shops. A source can help identify a product or give a useful nutrition starting point, but it cannot promise that the pack in your hand has not changed. Recipes, portions and labels move on. The current package is the useful final check.
This page names the public sources used in FoodSussed and gives the licence wording they require. It is not a claim that every food has a complete record or that every field comes from the same source. When information is missing, FoodSussed shows it as missing rather than inventing a number.
Open Food Facts
Product data from Open Food Facts is available under the Open Database Licence (ODbL) v1.0. Individual contents of the database are available under the Database Contents Licence (DbCL) v1.0.
Restaurant and café chains
Restaurant and café nutrition is from each chain’s published nutrition information.
Menus and recipes change too. Chain information is most useful for a sensible estimate when eating out; if a chain provides a current allergen or nutrition document, that document takes priority over an older match.
UK CoFID 2021
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0: McCance and Widdowson’s Composition of Foods Integrated Dataset 2021, Public Health England.
CoFID is a reference dataset for foods and ingredients. It is not a supermarket product catalogue, so it is used where that kind of reference information is more appropriate than a pack-specific result.
Using the information
These credits explain provenance, not a health recommendation. FoodSussed is a tracking and education tool. If you have an allergy, a medical dietary need or need certainty about a product, use the package label and speak with an appropriate professional.