Meal plans on the UK food database

Your clients shop in the UK, so their plans should be counted on UK foods. Peas & Pans matches your recipes to McCance and Widdowson's Composition of Foods (CoFID), the UK's own table, with USDA beside it.

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The first page of a meal plan PDF from Okafor Nutrition, a sample practice: its masthead, a note to the client and the week at a glance.
The same plan on the client's phone: the masthead, the coach's note and the days of the week.
A recipe in Peas & Pans on a phone, “Prawn and mangetout rice”: each ingredient line with the UK food it was matched to, such as “Rice, white, basmati, raw” and “Peas, mange-tout, raw”, a small UK mark beside each, and its calories.

Mangetout, spring onions and rapeseed oil, as you write them.

Write or import a recipe in your own words. Each line is matched to a UK food, and a small UK mark on the line says which table its numbers came from. When a match is uncertain the line is flagged, and you pick the food.

  • Every line shows the food it matched
  • Uncertain matches are flagged for you to check
  • Search either table by hand and pick the food yourself
The Foods screen in Peas & Pans on a phone, set to UK (CoFID) and searched for “mince”: 26 foods, each with its group, “UK CoFID”, and its calories, protein, carbs and fat per 100 g.

2,856 UK foods to search.

The Foods page lists the UK table by itself, apart from USDA's, with every number per 100 g. Search it, open a food, then put it on a meal plan or start a recipe with it.

  • Vegetables, meat, cereals, fish, fruit, dairy and more
  • Calories, protein, carbs and fat per 100 g
  • Add a food to a meal plan from its page
The source of a UK food in Peas & Pans on a phone: its food group, its food code 11-989, a note that the table gives available carbohydrate with fibre counted apart, published March 2021, the Open Government Licence v3.0, and the publisher's credit.

The source is on the page.

A UK food's page names the dataset, the food's own code in it and the licence. It also says how the UK counts carbohydrate: as available carbohydrate, with fibre apart, so the same bread reads a few grams lower than it does on USDA.

  • McCance and Widdowson's CoFID, the 2021 release
  • Each food carries its CoFID code
  • The UK's own values, not converted to match USDA

How the UK table works.

  • You choose the table

    Settings has a Food table choice: US, UK, Australia or Canada. On UK, each line is matched to the UK table first, then to USDA.

  • UK from the start in a UK time zone

    An account in a UK time zone starts on the UK table. The Import page says so once, and Settings changes it.

  • Saved recipes stay as they are

    Changing table moves nothing by itself. A recipe then offers a re-match, shows each line that would change, and applies only what you accept.

  • Grams always count

    The UK table publishes almost no household measures. A line in grams is always counted. A slice or a cup is weighed where we hold a measure for that food; where we do not, the line is flagged for you.

  • USDA is still there

    A line with no UK food is matched to USDA, and its mark says so. You can also pick a USDA food for any line by hand.

  • What stays on USDA

    The starter recipe library and the free calculators on this site are counted on USDA data. Your own recipes follow your table.

Where the UK data comes from.

McCance and Widdowson's Composition of Foods Integrated Dataset (CoFID), the 2021 release, published on GOV.UK(opens in new tab). We hold 2,856 of its foods and leave out the 31 alcoholic drinks, which it gives per 100 ml. It has no branded products and no barcodes. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. McCance and Widdowson's Composition of Foods Integrated Dataset, Public Health England.

Questions, answered.

Something else? Contact us, or write to hello@peasandpans.com.

McCance and Widdowson's Composition of Foods Integrated Dataset (CoFID), the 2021 release: 2,856 foods, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. It sits beside USDA FoodData Central, and you choose which one your recipes are matched to.

No. On the UK table a line is matched to a UK food first and to a USDA food when the UK table has none. Each line shows which table it came from, and you can search either table and pick the food yourself.

Not by themselves. A saved line keeps its food. After a change, a recipe offers a re-match, shows each line that would change, and applies only the ones you accept.

The UK table gives available carbohydrate and counts fibre apart. USDA counts fibre inside carbohydrate, so the same food reads a few grams higher there. We show the UK's own values and do not convert them.

No. CoFID is a table of foods, not of products, and there is no barcode scanner. A branded product is matched to the nearest food, and you can change the match.

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