Open data on nutritional composition for foods and dishes

Purpose and goal

The aim of the project is to use a web service to make data available from The Swedish Food Composition Database that provides information on the nutritional composition for about 2100 foods and dishes, mostly Swedish. Better conditions are created for scientists, food safety agencies and other interested to use these data in their various research projects in the field of food and health or for development of apps and services. The dataset is described according to DCAT-AP.

Expected results and effects

By making the data on nutritional composition available , the opportunity increases to develop new services in the field of food and health. More analyzes can be performed by different research projects, government agencies and other interested. Data on food and nutritional composition is requested by different software developers to build apps on fitness, food diaries, etc. People who participated in the project have learned about open data and DCAT-AP.

Planned approach and implementation

After examining The Swedish Food Composition Database for selecting which data to be included in the data set, the data was reviewed by nutritionists to ensure the data quality. Further, the dataset was described according to DCAT-AP, information on the dataset was published on the NFA website and a web service was developed.