Data sources & attributions
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
6Every source we ingest from, with the credit its license asks for.
| Source | Used for | License | Update cadence |
|---|---|---|---|
| FoodOn | Ingredient & dish category ontology | CC BY 3.0 | Refreshed per FoodOn ontology release; full-volume wave-2 imported 2026-07-13 from FoodOn release 2025-12-30 (food-product subtree). |
| ChEBI | Allergen-relevant compound data | CC BY 4.0 | Refreshed per ChEBI release; full-volume wave-2 imported 2026-07-13 from ChEBI release 253 (food-role compound subset). |
| UniProt | Reviewed allergen protein reference data | CC BY 4.0 | Refreshed per UniProt release; full-volume wave-2 imported 2026-07-13 from UniProt release 2026_02 (reviewed non-human allergen proteins). |
| USDA FoodData Central | Ingredient & nutrition canon | CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication) | Refreshed per FDC release; last imported wave-1 (2026-07-13-wave1). |
| Wikidata | Ingredient names & aliases | CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication) | Snapshot per SPARQL export; last imported Wikidata SPARQL 2026-07-05. |
| PubChem | Chemical compound reference data | Public Domain (U.S. Government work) | Retrieved via the PUG REST API; last imported PUG REST 2026-07-03. |
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.
- License
- CC BY 3.0
- Commercial use
- Allowed
- Share-alike
- Not required
ChEBI (Chemical Entities of Biological Interest), EMBL-EBI. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- License
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- Allowed
- Share-alike
- Not required
UniProt (the Universal Protein Knowledgebase), by the UniProt Consortium. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- License
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- Allowed
- Share-alike
- Not required
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
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
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