# National food databases — international coverage | Pappai > Which official food composition databases Pappai uses in each country, with source, licence and food count. See current coverage and the next countries in the pipeline. Source: https://pappai.it/en/food-databases Scientific sources # The right food database for every country Pappai doesn't rely on one generic table: for every country you work in, food search is routed to that country's official food composition database, when one exists under a licence that allows us to use it. How it works ## Automatic routing by country When a diet plan or a meal log searches for a food, Pappai looks at the nutritionist's studio country and queries that country's national database first; if the food isn't there, it falls back to USDA FoodData Central, Open Food Facts and hand-curated custom entries — the same fallback order for every country not yet covered by a national source. Current coverage ## Countries with an integrated national database Every source is integrated only after verifying its commercial-use licence — in some cases with explicit written authorisation from the owning body. Italy CREA 2019 · ~1.150 foods CREA — Italian public research body France CIQUAL 2020 · ~3.183 foods ANSES/Etalab 2.0 — open licence Germany BLS 4.0 · ~7.140 foods Max Rubner-Institut, CC BY 4.0 United Kingdom CoFID 2021 · ~2.887 foods UKHSA, Open Government Licence v3 Spain BEDCA v1.0 · ~2.214 foods AESAN/BEDCA — written authorisation for commercial use Switzerland naehrwertdaten.ch V7.0 · ~1.220 foods FSVO/BLV — commercial use explicitly authorised Netherlands NEVO 2025/9.0 · ~2.328 foods RIVM — commercial use authorised Norway Matvaretabellen · ~2.121 foods Mattilsynet, Norwegian Licence for Open Government Data 2.0 Finland Fineli · ~4.051 foods THL/Fineli, CC BY 4.0 Sweden Livsmedelsverket · ~2.575 foods Livsmedelsverket, CC BY 4.0 Lebanon WHO EMRO + Lebanese University · 65 foods WHO EMRO + Lebanese University — direct lab analyses (2021) Denmark Frida 6.1 · ~1.390 foods DTU/Figshare, CC BY 4.0 Portugal PortFIR/TCA v7.1 · ~1.376 foods INSA — written authorisation for commercial use In countries not yet listed here, search still runs on USDA FoodData Central + Open Food Facts + curated custom entries — never an empty database. In progress ## Coming next For these countries food search still runs on international sources (USDA, Open Food Facts) while we work on adding a dedicated national database. Ireland Japan Poland Romania Czech Republic Iceland Mandatory attributions shown in-app for foreign sources: ANSES/CIQUAL, Max Rubner-Institut/BLS, UKHSA/OGL v3, Mattilsynet/NLOD, THL/Fineli, Livsmedelsverket, FSVO/BLV (naehrwertdaten.ch), RIVM (NEVO), AESAN/BEDCA, WHO EMRO/Lebanese University, DTU (Frida), INSA (PortFIR). ## Don't see your country? Even without a dedicated national database, Pappai still covers food search with reliable international sources. [Start your free trial](https://pappai.it/en/register)[See Pappai for nutritionists](https://pappai.it/en/for-nutritionists)