How We Know It's True
We don't publish
what we can't verify.
Most food information online is opinion, marketing, or a confident guess. Every fact in Foodgeist earns its place: sourced, science-checked, and cleared by an audit built to disprove it.
Verified Pass Rate
The rest are held, flagged, or rejected. Never quietly published.
3.5M+
source-cited entries
growing every day
68+
open science sources
authoritative, citable
7
connected layers
one graph, not silos
0
unsourced claims
no source, no ship
One Graph, Seven Layers
Everyone else has silos.
We have one connected graph.
A flavor list here, a nutrition table there, a recipe site somewhere else. In Foodgeist a single ingredient links to its chemistry, taste, aroma, health evidence, and origin. All cross-verified, in one place.
7 layers · one graph · each independently sourced, cross-linked to the rest
Why This Is Hard To Copy
Anyone can publish a food fact.
Almost no one verifies one.
The value is not any single fact. It is the trust that every fact has been checked, the breadth of how they connect, and a quality bar that compounds the longer the system runs.
Four Things We Promise
The rules every entry obeys
Sourced, or it doesn’t ship
Every claim traces back to an authoritative, citable source. No source, no publication. There is no "trust us" in Foodgeist.
Checked against the science
Temperatures, compounds, reactions, and origins are cross-checked against peer-reviewed literature before anything is accepted.
Independently audited
A final review must approve every entry. It is built to find what is wrong, not to rubber-stamp. Its decision is final.
Honest about uncertainty
A measurement is shown as a measurement; a prediction is labeled as a prediction. We never dress up an estimate as a fact.
What We Refuse To Do
- Publish a claim with no traceable source.
- Present a guess as if it were measured data.
- Invent compounds, temperatures, or cultural history.
- Let pseudo-science or known-fake patterns through.
- Ship an entry with unresolved contradictions.
Built On Published Science
Every claim here carries the source it came from. Where the science gives a prediction rather than a measurement, we label it plainly, so you always know what is established and what is estimated.
Peer-reviewed chemistry
Measured sensory science
Published health & safety evidence
See For Yourself
Live verification rate and counts: /api/health · How we compare: see the benchmark below
The Benchmark
How Foodgeist compares
Open numbers against every major food, recipe, flavor, and trend platform. Our counts are live; theirs are their latest published figures.
Foodgeist Right Now
Foodgeist counts: live database · Competitor data: as of 2026-05-17
Versus Each Competitor
Spoonacular
Recipe + ingredient API
$29 – $449/mo
USDA FoodData Central
Government nutrition DB
free / public domain
Open Food Facts
Crowd-sourced product DB
free / ODbL
FlavorDB / FlavorDB2
Flavor compound DB
free / academic
FooDB (Wishart Lab)
Compound × food matrix
free / public
Tastewise
B2B food trend intelligence
enterprise contract — no public pricing
Allrecipes
Consumer recipe site
free / ad-supported
Wikipedia (food articles)
Open knowledge wiki
free / CC-BY-SA
NielsenIQ BASES (formerly Gastrograph AI)
Sensory AI & CPG concept testing
enterprise contract — no public pricing
Foodpairing
Flavor pairing platform
B2B — contact for pricing
Foodgeist, Full Stat Sheet
The Verdict
Foodgeist already leads the field on verification rigor, embedded trend layer, update cadence, and grounded conversational interface. Scale continues to grow daily, with 68+ authoritative sources ingested continuously, every entity mapped to molecular evidence and source provenance.