{"id":41767,"date":"2026-07-18T22:23:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T20:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/5000-food-nutrition-dataset-with-calories-macros-barcodes-and-source-metadata\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T22:23:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T20:23:40","slug":"5000-food-nutrition-dataset-with-calories-macros-barcodes-and-source-metadata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/5000-food-nutrition-dataset-with-calories-macros-barcodes-and-source-metadata\/","title":{"rendered":"5,000-food Nutrition Dataset With Calories, Macros, Barcodes And Source Metadata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<h1>I published a free sample of 5,000 food records for anyone working on nutrition search, calorie tracking, barcode matching, data cleaning, or food-related ML experiments.<\/h1>\n<p><strong>Dataset<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaggle.com\/datasets\/dietly\/dietly-food-sample-5000-foods-calories-and-macros\">https:\/\/www.kaggle.com\/datasets\/dietly\/dietly-food-sample-5000-foods-calories-and-macros<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Each row can include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; food name and brand<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; barcode<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; category<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; serving size<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; calories<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; protein, fat and carbohydrates<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; fiber and sugar<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; sodium, saturated fat and cholesterol<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; potassium<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; source and confidence metadata<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The data is primarily derived from Open Food Facts and is provided with its ODbL provenance and attribution requirements.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Important limitations:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; nutrition fields can be missing<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; community-contributed labels can be incorrect or outdated<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; coverage varies by product and country<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; this is a 5,000-row sample, not the complete catalog<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; it should not be treated as medical or laboratory-verified data<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Disclosure: I created this sample while building DietlyAPI, a hosted search and barcode API over a much larger indexed catalog. The downloadable sample itself is available without an API signup.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d especially appreciate feedback about the schema: which additional fields or export format would make the dataset more useful?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/Consistent_Ad_7780\"> \/u\/Consistent_Ad_7780 <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1v05k27\/5000food_nutrition_dataset_with_calories_macros\/\">[link]<\/a><\/span>   <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1v05k27\/5000food_nutrition_dataset_with_calories_macros\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><\/p><div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-41767 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='41767' data-nonce='9de69db8d5' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-41767 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-41767 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I published a free sample of 5,000 food records for anyone working on nutrition search, calorie tracking,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-datatards","wpcat-85-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}