Attributions

Data sources & attributions

The open knowledge we build on.

That Menu App enriches its ingredient, nutrition, and food-science data from the open scientific sources below. Each is credited here with its license, attribution, and refresh cadence.

Knowledge sources

Every source we ingest from, with the credit its license asks for.

FoodOn

CC BY 3.0

FoodOn food ontology (foodon.org), by Damion Dooley et al., The Hospital for Sick Children / University of British Columbia. Licensed under CC BY 3.0.

Commercial use:: Allowed
Share-alike:: Not required
Update cadence:: Refreshed per FoodOn ontology release; full-volume wave-2 imported 2026-07-13 from FoodOn release 2025-12-30 (food-product subtree).

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ChEBI

CC BY 4.0

ChEBI (Chemical Entities of Biological Interest), EMBL-EBI. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Commercial use:: Allowed
Share-alike:: Not required
Update cadence:: Refreshed per ChEBI release; full-volume wave-2 imported 2026-07-13 from ChEBI release 253 (food-role compound subset).

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UniProt

CC BY 4.0

UniProt (the Universal Protein Knowledgebase), by the UniProt Consortium. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Commercial use:: Allowed
Share-alike:: Not required
Update cadence:: Refreshed per UniProt release; full-volume wave-2 imported 2026-07-13 from UniProt release 2026_02 (reviewed non-human allergen proteins).

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USDA FoodData Central

CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, FoodData Central (fdc.nal.usda.gov). Dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0.

Commercial use:: Allowed
Share-alike:: Not required
Update cadence:: Refreshed per FDC release; last imported wave-1 (2026-07-13-wave1).

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Wikidata

CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)

Wikidata (wikidata.org), by the Wikidata contributors / Wikimedia Foundation. Dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0.

Commercial use:: Allowed
Share-alike:: Not required
Update cadence:: Snapshot per SPARQL export; last imported Wikidata SPARQL 2026-07-05.

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PubChem

Public Domain (U.S. Government work)

PubChem, National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), U.S. National Library of Medicine. A U.S. Government work in the public domain.

Commercial use:: Allowed
Share-alike:: Not required
Update cadence:: Retrieved via the PUG REST API; last imported PUG REST 2026-07-03.

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