The world's food data, truly unified.
GFDIR maps nutritional data, prices, and cultural context for foods across 19+ regions โ so the difference between "garri" in Lagos and "cassava flour" in London is never lost.
One word. Completely different foods.
Order a โTortillaโ in Madrid and you get a dense potato omelette โ 150 kcal. Order it in Mexico City and you get flatbread โ 52 kcal. Most databases list both under the same entry, with the same calorie count. We don't.
Tortilla Espaรฑola โ thick, protein-rich, fried in olive oil.
Thin pressed dough โ base of tacos, quesadillas, and burritos.
What Americans call "fries" โ chunky, golden, served with fish.
What Brits call "crisps" โ paper-thin, salty, bagged snack.
Variant Tracking
Same food, different regions? We track parent-child relationships so every regional twist is documented.
Alternative Names
"Cassava" = "Garri" = "Manioc" = "Mandioca". We store every alias so you can always find what you're looking for.
Region-Native Tagging
We mark which foods are native to which regions โ because where a food comes from changes how you understand it.
Recipe Composition
Recipes broken down to gram-level ingredients, so nutrients roll up automatically from raw components.
National databases disagree on the same food.
Ask three databases how many calories are in cassava flour and you'll get three different answers. We cross-reference them all so you don't have to.
Cross-referenced ยท UK CoFID primary
Cassava Flour โ per 100g
Three reputable sources. Three different answers.
22 kcal spread across sources โ which one is right?
19 regions. One unified database.
From Lagos to London, Sรฃo Paulo to Seoul โ every region has its own food culture, currencies, and local databases. We bring them all together.
Backed by National-Level Data Sources
Not everyone measures in grams and cups.
From the West African "derica" to the British "pint" (vs American), local units vary wildly. GFDIR converts them all โ with food-specific density, because 1 cup of flour โ 1 cup of sugar.
Derica
A standard tomato tin used as a measuring cup in markets across Nigeria. The most common unit for grains, beans, and garri.
Pint
Think a pint is a pint? A British pint is 20% larger than an American one. We handle regional volume differences automatically.
Paint Bucket
A repurposed paint bucket (3.5kg) commonly used for buying rice, beans, and maize in bulk at wholesale markets.
Mudu
A calabash-based measuring vessel used specifically in Northern Nigerian markets. Size varies by commodity and market.
Olonka
A traditional Ghanaian measuring tin. Widely used in market trading across Accra, Kumasi, and rural areas.
๐ก Density matters: Every conversion is food-specific. 1 derica of rice weighs differently from 1 derica of garri โ our engine knows the difference.
Track food prices. Spot inflation early.
We track thousands of price points from major retailers and local markets every day. See how food costs change over time โ and catch promotions before they end.
Rice (50kg bag)
โฆ Price trend โ last 7 months
Live Scraping
Automated scrapers run on schedule to pull the latest prices from 4 retail platforms.
Inflation Tracking
Every price snapshot is saved to an append-only history table. Watch food costs change over weeks and months.
Promo Detection
We flag promotional prices so they don't distort your baseline. Know the real price vs. the sale price.
Multi-Source Verification
When multiple providers sell the same item, we compare prices to catch outliers and stale data.
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