01How the numbers stay honest
In the app, food rows show Verified, Community or Yours rather than a source name. In a photo, the AI recognises the food and estimates the portion; it never makes up calories or macros. Every nutrition number comes from one of these tables.
02Sources
Matvaretabellen
Main source for nutrition numbers, with Norwegian foods first.
Norwegian Food Composition Table 2026. The Norwegian Food Safety Authority. www.matvaretabellen.no
Licence: Norwegian Licence for Open Government Data (NLOD) 2.0
GalaxyXplore curated foods
Everyday foods and serving sizes our team checks and adds.
Common foods checked and added by the GalaxyXplore team.
Licence: Proprietary
USDA FoodData Central
Fills gaps for foods the main table doesn't cover.
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. FoodData Central (fdc.nal.usda.gov).
Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (public domain)
Open Food Facts
Packaged products you scan by barcode. They show a Community badge.
Barcode product data from Open Food Facts (openfoodfacts.org), made available under the Open Database License (ODbL). Product photos are under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike.
Licence: Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0
If you share this data, the same licence applies.
GalaxyXplore community, reviewed
Packaged products people send from the app, added only after a reviewer checks them.
Packaged products sent by people who use GalaxyXplore Nutrition, checked by our reviewers before they are added.
Licence: Proprietary
Honest numbers start with honest sources.
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