IngrIntel turns the UK's official food composition data into a fast, searchable workspace — so R&D teams can find, compare and substitute ingredients in minutes, with live Food Standards Agency recall and allergy alerts alongside.
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Scenario: red split lentils unavailable
Per 100 g: 25.6 g protein · 17.4 g fibre · 311 kcal
Closest nutritional matches
Beans, haricot, whole, dried, raw
Vegetables & pulses · same food group
21.4 g prot.
17 g fibre
Peas, dried, raw
Vegetables & pulses · same food group
21.6 g prot.
13 g fibre
Lentils, green and brown, whole, dried, raw
Vegetables & pulses · same food group
24.3 g prot.
8.9 g fibre
Foods compared
671
Method
Nutritional
Source
CoFID 2021
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We estimate a single reformulation sprint can cost £20,000–£100,000 in staff time — much of it spent chasing specs across tools that were never designed to work together.
Specs scattered across inboxes, each in a different format.
CoFID, USDA and labels — none of them talk to each other.
Carbon and water footprint calculated somewhere else entirely.
Weather, geopolitics and price spikes discovered after they hit production.
Everything live today is built on official UK data. Labels show what's still in development.
The full McCance & Widdowson CoFID 2021 dataset — macros, minerals, vitamins and fatty acids for 2,886 foods — searchable by name, food group and nutrient thresholds. Open Food Facts and functional protein data are coming soon.
Ingredient unavailable? Rank the closest nutritional matches by similarity score. Functional, price and supply-risk weighting are in development.
Live Food Standards Agency product recalls and allergy alerts, refreshed every 15 minutes and flagged by severity. Weather and commodity price signals are planned.
Up to five ingredients side by side — macros, minerals, vitamins and fatty acids, with the best value per row highlighted and CSV export. Cost and allergen columns are coming soon.
Find any of 2,886 UK foods by name or food group, and filter by protein, fat, carbohydrate or sugar thresholds.
Line up to five candidates across macros, minerals, vitamins and fatty acids — then export to CSV.
When an ingredient is unavailable, the substitution engine ranks the closest nutritional matches with a similarity score.
IngrIntel starts from the UK's official composition data and live FSA alerts, with a free plan so small teams can start today. Here's exactly what's live and what we're building next.
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