Trustwell’s nutrition database includes a wide range of generic and brand name foods and ingredients and is compiled from a variety of reputable sources including the latest databases from USDA and FoodData Central, manufacturer’s data, and data from restaurants.

While many databases focus on quantity and crowdsourced data, we’ve chosen to focus on quality and customer needs. Trustwell data is relied on by most of the top food companies and professionals in the world. All data that Trustwell collects is run through a variety of visual and electronic mathematical checks to ensure accuracy and integrity. Sources are contacted to reconcile any questionable data. Data that cannot be reconciled is not added to the database.

The Trustwell database provides several calculated fields, such as the percent calories from fat and total unsaturated fat, as well as MyPlate food group information to database items. In addition, we provide faceted naming structures, and food categories and characteristics tags, useful for designing more efficient searching and data organizing. Our ongoing database maintenance includes removing outdated foods, adding new foods and updating existing foods, to keep current with the ever-changing food market.