About MyFoodAnalysis

A food data project that started with curiosity: what is actually in the food we eat, and what can you learn when you can see all of it at once?

The U.S. Department of Agriculture measures and publishes the composition of hundreds of thousands of foods, from a raw banana to a boxed cereal: calories, protein, dozens of vitamins and minerals, fatty acids, amino acids. It is one of the richest public datasets there is, and it is hard to explore. MyFoodAnalysis is our way of exploring it: every food on its own page, in the servings people actually eat, ranked by any nutrient, and searchable by several nutrients at once in the Food Finder.

It is free to use: no sign-up needed to explore. The numbers are USDA's; everything we do to them is written down on how we build this, and the code that does it is open source, so anyone can check it or build on it.

Who we are

MyFoodAnalysis is made by ObjectGraph, in New York City. Food data is not new to us: in 2009 we helped Vistrada build MetabolicPro for GMDI (Genetic Metabolic Dietitians International), a diet-analysis tool that metabolic dietitians use to analyse recipes down to single amino acids.

Questions, corrections or ideas: info@objectgraph.com. If a number looks wrong, send us the page; we will check it against USDA and fix our side or report it to USDA.

MyFoodAnalysis is information, not medical or dietary advice; see the terms of use and privacy.