FoodData & Benchmarks
Data without context misses the mark. Compare your Product’s lab-tested samples to real market data to understand and communicate how it stacks up.

High-quality, trusted food data at your fingertips
Trusted food data and visual comparison tools for your product, all in one place
Sales and Marketing
Discover the data you need to make comparison claims for your product and understand how it stacks up to the competitive landscape of food products.
Research and Quality Assurance
Make deep comparative studies with trusted food quality data to understand where your product excels and where it needs improvement.
USDA food data like you've never seen before
We’ve imported data from USDA FoodData central’s databases so you can use it for research, quality assurance, benchmarking your product, and even making comparison claims.
- Consistent and easy-to-read format
- Data visualizations to instantly see differences
- Ready-to-use datasets, valid for comparison claims


We’ve done the hard work for you
Nutrient taxonomy mapping
All USDA nutrients are mapped to our unified food component taxonomy ensuring it always has the same name and place in our analysis table.
User-friendly enhancements
We ensure intuitive naming of food components and present contextual definitions and function descriptions of nutrients, so you feel savvy navigating the data.
Variability is preserved, not discarded
We keep USDA’s min, median, and max sample values and sample counts per nutrient so we can present you with this variability in mini distribution charts.
Go beyond USDA, and gain access to an unparalleled look at food data
For producers looking for more, we combine USDA data with Edacious proprietary, verified data. Edacious Foods give you an unmatched representation of nutrient profiles and their variability for a given type of food.
- Continuously updated and growing
- Large sample sizes
- Discover the true variability of food

Alignment of attributes for comparisons with integrity and accuracy
We don’t just combine USDA and Edacious data, we carefully curate the attributes of these datasets so they are accurately filtered and applied ensuring you’re always comparing apples-to-apples.
Intuitive comparison tooling so you can spend your time gleaning insights rather than wrangling data
Get out of spreadsheets and instantly make visual data comparisons to glean competitive product insights.
- Easy-to-use tooling with data visualizations
- Compare 80+ food components
- Shareable within your organization


How to get it
FoodData is available to all Pro Platform customers, with expanded access to data and more options to compare it on higher tiers.
For purchase, or access by contributing data. Contact us to learn more.
The best way to get started is to schedule a demo with our team.
We’ve got transparent, upfront pricing on this website. Our team will help assess your needs and match you with the best plan for your team.
Pro Platform turns lab results into food quality decisions your teams can act on. Explore the tools below.
More Pro Platform features
Public Product ListingsEasy proof in your marketing
FoodData & BenchmarksCompare your product's samples against USDA and Edacious data
Samples DBThe online source-of-truth for samples coordination
Product ManagerThe science, regulatory, QA, and marketing partner in your pocket
Web EmbedsProve to your consumers that you’ve tested
Nutrition Facts LabelsCompliant labels, smarter with retail to online links
Food Claims GuideKnow what you can say, and have the audit defense to back it up