Word to word transcripts of 11 semi-structured interviews carried out during the period April-October 2020 on 'What do FNS-Cloud Food Researchers Want to Know'. The notes were independently taken by the two interviewers during the interviews and combined to produce almost word-to-word transcripts of the interviews. Included in this Excel are also the questions addressed. The semi-guided interviews were undertaken to ensure the content validity of trainings for the FNS-Cloud community, and to reflect the training needs and preferences of FNS-Cloud project partners. Both interviewers (2 persons) and interviewed (15 persons) were food science professionals participating in the FNS-Cloud project (H2020 No. 863059). The Interviews, which lasted 30 minutes, aimed at identifying training needs and preferences related to open science and the use of the project datasets, tools and services: what partners want to learn, how they prefer to learn, and who are their ideal teachers. Inductive coding of the transcripts was done with the NVivo 12 Pro© software for qualitative analysis, following an iterative approach involving three researchers reviewing interview transcripts, codes, sub-codes, and coded phrases. The results of the qualitative analysis are presented in the paper: Teaching Open Science. What do FNS-Cloud Food Researchers Want to Know? presented at the 8th International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd’22), HEAd'22 | June 14-17, 2022 · Valencia, Spain (headconf.org) and published as a Peer-reviewed article in the: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd’22) (includes DOI and ISBN)