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Where the numbers come from

Where the numbers Radish shows actually come from.

831 of the 2,416 foods in the app carry a named source and its record number — 829 from CIQUAL, 2 from the USDA. The rest are flagged as estimates in the app. Counted on 20/08/2026.

Radish invents no nutrition value: it reproduces published tables, and it says so on every food. This page gives the primary source, the top-up sources, the calculation rules, what is still estimated, and how to check a food for yourself.

An official French table, cited with its vintage

Everyday foods marked “reference data” in Radish come from the CIQUAL table: public, dated, and citable record by record.

Primary source

CIQUAL

French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES)

The food composition table of the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety. Used for the values of everyday foods marked “reference data”.

  • PublisherANSES
  • Vintage usedCiqual 2025 table, updated 19/11/2025
  • Permanent identifierDOI 10.57745/RDMHWY
  • LicenceOpen Licence (Etalab) 2.0
  • Browse the tableciqual.anses.fr →

Source: ANSES, Ciqual 2025 table, updated 19/11/2025. DOI 10.57745/RDMHWY, published under the Open Licence (Etalab) 2.0.

Non-affiliation. ANSES does not endorse Radish and is in no way associated with this application.

Check it yourself

Tracing one food back to its source, in three steps

Every sourced food in Radish carries its provenance stamp and its table record number. That number is not decorative: it pastes straight into the publisher's own search.

  1. Open the food in the app

    From the diary or from search, tapping a food opens its per-100 g values.

  2. Read the stamp and the record number

    The stamp names the table (CIQUAL, USDA); the line beneath gives the record number and the vintage. For example: code 20587 · ANSES, table Ciqual 2025.

  3. Paste the number at the publisher

    On ciqual.anses.fr, the search accepts the food's record number: the ANSES entry opens, and its values compare line by line with the ones in Radish.

    Two things to know before comparing line by line. Some rows cite their own constituent: the table does not always publish a single constituent for a given vitamin, so the entry states which one was read. The “Folate (B9)” row cites the CIQUAL constituent “Vitamine B9 ou Folates totaux, équivalents folates alimentaires, DFE (µg/100 g)”, code 56702 — that is the name to look for at ANSES, not “total folates”. We copy it exactly as ANSES writes it, French and long as it is; shortening or translating it would make it unfindable. And where the table writes “traces” or a bound such as “< 0.5”, the entry shows that wording as it stands, without converting it into a number: a reformatted bound is a moved bound.

A food with no provenance stamp? Then it is estimated, and the app does not pretend otherwise — see the estimated share.Without installing the app: search a food on the French page.

The tool

Look up a food and see where its figure comes from

Radish publishes a public lookup over 653 CIQUAL records: the exact name of the record in the table, its number, its vintage, and its values per 100 g — the ANSES values, not a retyping of them.

The lookup tool is in French. That is deliberate, not an oversight: it displays ANSES record names and constituent names verbatim, and those names are the search key at ciqual.anses.fr. Translating them would make the records unfindable, which is the one thing the tool exists to prevent. Open it here: search the CIQUAL records · browse the whole extract.

653 CIQUAL records, cited by 830 foods in the app (several foods can cite the same record). Scanned branded products and recipes are not in it: their provenance is shown on their own entry, in the app. Extract regenerated on 13/08/2026 from the ANSES Ciqual 2025 table (updated 19/11/2025).

Sourced, not verified. Radish reproduces a value published by ANSES and cites it; it runs no food analysis of its own.Source: ANSES, Ciqual 2025 table, updated 19/11/2025. DOI 10.57745/RDMHWY, Open Licence (Etalab) 2.0.

Reading an entry

What a Radish entry says, marker by marker

An example laid out for this page from a real record. This is not a screenshot: it is the same information, flattened so it can be annotated.

Lentille verte, bouillie/cuite à l'eau

Per 100 g

CIQUAL

code 20587 · ANSES, table Ciqual 2025

Energy125 kcal
Protein10.1 g
Carbohydrate16.2 g
Fibre8.45 g
Iron2.45 mg
Vitamin C (value approximated by the table)0.5 mg
Folate (B9)not reported

Example display composed for this page, from CIQUAL record no. 20587 (ANSES, Ciqual 2025 table). The food name is kept in French, as ANSES publishes it — it is the search key.

  • The “CIQUAL” stamp, top right of the entry

    It names the table the values come from. It states a provenance, not a verdict on quality: Radish reproduces a published value, it does not test the food.

  • The line “code 20587 · table Ciqual 2025”

    The record number and the vintage of the table. That is what makes the value checkable at the publisher, and what lets a correction be dated.

  • “Per 100 g”, under the food name

    All reference values are brought back to 100 g. No portion weight is shown as sourced, for want of a table that publishes them.

  • The italic note “value approximated by the table”

    Here ANSES reports either traces (carried as 0) or an upper bound (“less than X”, carried as X). Radish keeps that caveat instead of erasing it.

  • “not reported”, written where a number would be

    When the field is absent from the record, the app writes it out in words. Never a zero in its place, never an invented average.

What we do not know yet

The estimated share, counted and shown

An honest nutrition database is not a complete one: it is one that can say where it stops. Below is the breakdown of the 2,416 entries bundled in the app, measured on 4 August 2026.

  • Sourced generic foods 83034.3 %

    An everyday food tied to a named CIQUAL or USDA record, with its number. It is the only case where Radish shows a provenance stamp.

  • Estimated generic foods 52221.6 %

    An everyday food for which no record has been matched yet. It carries no provenance stamp in the app; matching against the reference tables continues.

  • Branded products 55923.1 %

    Identified manufactured products, whose values are the ones declared for the product itself — not those of a composition table. A different provenance logic from everyday foods.

  • Recipes 50520.9 %

    Preparations recomposed from their ingredients: their values follow from those of the foods that make them up, they are not read off a table.

Two counts, two dates, and we publish both. The four-way breakdown above was measured on 04/08/2026. The headline figure at the top of this page — 831 of 2,416 with a declared record — was counted on 20/08/2026 across the whole bundled database, branded products and recipes included. The denominators differ on purpose; neither is re-derived from the other. Measurements of 04/08/2026 and 20/08/2026 on the bundled database.

Top-up sources

What fills the gaps in CIQUAL

When a food is not in the French table, Radish looks elsewhere — and says so on the entry, naming the table it used.

  • A1

    USDA FoodData Central

    Composition top-up

    The nutrition database of the United States Department of Agriculture, used alongside CIQUAL for certain foods.

    fdc.nal.usda.gov →

Algorithms and thresholds

The calculation rules, and where they come from

A Nutri-Score, a percentage of a daily reference intake or a safety floor is not read off a food table: these are published rules, applied as they stand.

  • B1

    Nutri-Score

    Santé publique France

    The Nutri-Score shown in Radish follows the algorithm defined by Santé publique France, in its revised 2022–2023 version (brought into French law by the order of 14 March 2025). During the transition period that order provides for, running to March 2027, the score shown may differ from the one printed on the packaging, which still carries the earlier algorithm.

    santepubliquefrance.fr — Nutri-Score →
    Non-affiliation. The Nutri-Score shown in Radish is calculated independently, using the method published by the French health authorities. Radish is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or certified by Santé publique France.
  • B2

    Daily nutrition reference intakes

    ANSES

    The percentages shown on micronutrients (iron, magnesium, calcium, potassium, vitamin C, vitamin D and so on) refer to the population reference intakes (références nutritionnelles pour la population, RNP) published by ANSES.

    anses.fr — nutrition reference intakes →
  • B3

    Calorie safety floor

    ANSES · AHA/ACC/TOS

    Radish prevents a target being set below 1,200 kcal/day (women) or 1,500 kcal/day (men), thresholds aligned with the ANSES opinion (no. 2009-SA-0099) and the 2013 AHA/ACC/TOS Guideline for the Management of Overweight and Obesity in Adults.

What these figures are for

What these reference points are not

Oli

“An accurate number is not advice. For your own situation, ask someone who does this for a living.”

Radish draws on these public databases; the recommendations it shows (macros, micronutrients, coach tips) are general reference points, established for a general adult population, and do not constitute individualised medical advice. Consult a healthcare professional for any question about your personal situation.

Last updated: 20 August 2026.CIQUAL 2025 table (19/11/2025) · Nutri-Score 2022–2023 algorithm.

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