Sharing an open food and nutrition dataset I built, free and under ODbL. It started because I kept needing clean food data for a calorie-tracking app and couldn’t find anything that was open, clean and multilingual all at once, the open stuff out there is either English-only or pretty messy, and the genuinely multilingual options are paywalled APIs like FatSecret or Edamam.
The basics:
- ~9,800 base foods, each with localized names in ~46 languages
- Nutrition values from OpenNutrition’s open data (ODbL, credited); the layer I actually built is the localization on top
- Not a Google-Translate pass, food names get tricky (“peperoni” vs “pepperoni”), so real disambiguation, normalization and cross-language matching
- Format: JSON Lines (.jsonl), ~25 MB compressed, ODbL
- Download: https://leana.app/en/data-sources/
- Browse live, no download: https://leana.app/en/foods (live search covers 5 languages for now: EN, IT, ES, FR, DE; the full download already has ~46)
It’s an ongoing project and I’ll keep adding foods and languages over time. No repo yet, so if you spot something wrong or want a language added, just drop a comment here or send me a DM and I’ll fold it in.
Mostly I’d just love some general feedback, and honestly whether something like this feels useful to you at all or not. Thanks for your attention!
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