Open Data Licenses

Oivana’s food search and barcode lookup are built on open data. This page names each source, the license it comes with, and where to read it.

Open Food Facts

Packaged-food products found by name or by barcode come from Open Food Facts, a database written by the Open Food Facts contributors.

• Product data: © Open Food Facts contributors. The database is available under the Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0; its individual contents are available under the Database Contents License (DbCL) 1.0.
• Product photos: © Open Food Facts contributors, available under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC BY-SA 3.0). Oivana shows each photo unchanged.
• What we changed: we keep a searchable copy of the products, convert nutrient amounts to common units and rank search results. The nutrition values shown in Oivana can differ from the Open Food Facts page for the same product, and product labels change: check the package for anything that matters to you.
• Learn more, correct a product or add one: world.openfoodfacts.org. License summary: world.openfoodfacts.org/legal.

USDA FoodData Central

Generic and cooked foods (a banana, a bowl of rice) come from USDA FoodData Central: the Foundation Foods, SR Legacy and FNDDS data sets. Some packaged products, mostly sold in the United States, come from its Branded Foods data set, which Oivana combines with Open Food Facts by barcode.

• U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. FoodData Central (Foundation Foods April 2026, SR Legacy April 2018, FNDDS 2021-2023; Branded Foods April 2026). fdc.nal.usda.gov.
• Released into the public domain under CC0 1.0. No permission or credit is required; we credit it anyway.

European food composition databases

The generic foods you find by name in your own language, and the iodine and other trace nutrients shown for them, also come from four national food composition databases. Each is used under the license named below. Where a license asks us to say what we changed, it is stated with the credit.

Bundeslebensmittelschlüssel (BLS), Germany

• Max Rubner-Institut (2025): Bundeslebensmittelschlüssel (BLS), Version 4.0 — Deutsche Nährstoffdatenbank. Karlsruhe. DOI: 10.25826/Data20251217-134202-0. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Changes: values converted to Oivana’s units, carbohydrate shown as available carbohydrate plus fibre, names searchable in German and English.

Livsmedelsdatabasen, Sweden

• Swedish Food Agency (Livsmedelsverket), Livsmedelsdatabasen. dataportal.livsmedelsverket.se. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Changes: values converted to Oivana’s units, carbohydrate shown as available carbohydrate plus fibre, English and Swedish names searchable.

McCance and Widdowson’s Composition of Foods (CoFID), United Kingdom

• Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. McCance and Widdowson’s Composition of Foods Integrated Dataset 2021, © Crown copyright, UK Health Security Agency. Changes: values converted to Oivana’s units, carbohydrate shown as available carbohydrate plus fibre.

Fineli, Finland

• Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Fineli - Finnish Food Composition Database, Release 20 (nutrient data package, 74 components). fineli.fi. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Changes: energy converted from kJ to kcal, values converted to Oivana’s units, carbohydrate shown as available carbohydrate plus fibre, English names shown in sentence case, Finnish and Swedish names searchable.

The nutrition values shown in Oivana can differ from the values on the source’s own site, because we convert units and show one carbohydrate figure (including fibre) for every food. Check the source for anything that matters to you.

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