The French food composition database is run by CIQUAL in the Observatory of Food, unit of ANSES (the French agency for food, environmental and occupational health safety). Its mission is to collect, evaluate and make available nutritional composition of food consumed in France. This file provides the composition of 3185 foods for 67 components (for instance: carbohydrates, individual sugars and starch, proteins, fat and fatty acids, vitamins and minerals, energy...).

The present data and information are made available to the public by the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES). They must not be reproduced in any form without clear indication of the source: "Anses. 2020. Ciqual French food composition table." or, in more detail, for a scientific publication: "Anses. 2020. Ciqual French food composition table. Retrieved DD/MM/YYYY. https://ciqual.anses.fr/ "