Nutrition Database Licensing

Fruit & Vegetable Nutrition Database

Nutrition Database Licensing

ESHA’s nutrition database licensing is a powerful tool for industry professionals needing comprehensive nutrition data from a reliable source. With more than 40 years’ experience and a team consisting of Registered Dietitians, Industry Experts, and thousands of customers, you can trust our nutritional data to be your source for nutrition information.

Restaurants

The database contains more than 20,000 menu items from popular chain restaurants and food service companies.

Common Foods

This includes raw food, spices, and everyday recipes, from the USDA, FNDDS, Heath Canada, and UK government databases.

Branded Foods

The database offers over 25,000 unique database entries for brand-name products commonly found in grocery stores.

What You Get when You License a Nutrition Database

Customization
ESHA offers a variety of database packages to meet your needs. Customers are provided a snapshot of our database to use in developing their own application. Our database can easily be integrated with custom database and standard software applications for a variety of uses and industries, saving customers time and money in development and research. Database packages are based on the number of foods and nutrients selected.

Database Components
Select from a range of nutrition components including Core Nutrients, Vitamins, Minerals, Diabetic Exchanges, and MyPlate Groups.

Available Databases
Choose one or more food databases including ESHA’s Consumer database, USDA Standard Reference, US Manufacturers, US Restaurants, and databases from Canada, and the United Kingdom. An extensive Activity database is also available.

Why ESHA?

Variety
ESHA’s database includes a wide range of generic and brand name foods and ingredients and is compiled from a variety of reputable sources including the latest USDA Standard Reference database, manufacturer’s data, and data from restaurants.

Accuracy
While many databases focus on quantity and crowdsourced data, we’ve chosen to focus on quality and customer needs. ESHA data is relied on by most of the top food companies and professionals in the world. All data that ESHA collects is run through a variety of visual and electronic mathematical checks to ensure accuracy and integrity. Sources are contacted to reconcile any questionable data. Data that cannot be reconciled is not added to the database.

Added Value
The ESHA database provides several calculated fields, such as the percent calories from fat and total unsaturated fat, as well as diabetic exchanges and MyPlate food group information to database items. In addition, we provide faceted naming structures, and food categories and characteristics tags, useful for designing more efficient searching and data organizing. Our ongoing database maintenance includes removing outdated foods, adding new foods and updating existing foods, to keep current with the ever-changing food market.