International Food Nutrition Index with NOVA Groups and Nutriscore for 15,000+ Products

Over 15,000 food products are listed, each with associated NOVA food processing groups and Nutriscore ratings. The dataset also includes ingredient lists for the products. It was sourced from Kaggle, but the author, organization, and last update date are unknown.

Use Cases

• Classify food products by their level of processing based on the NOVA group labels.
• Analyze the distribution of Nutriscore ratings across different food categories.
• Study the relationship between ingredient lists and nutritional quality scores.
• Train models to predict a food's Nutriscore from its ingredients or NOVA classification.

Strengths

• Includes over 15,000 individual food product entries.
• Contains three distinct nutritional and processing metrics: NOVA groups, Nutriscore, and ingredients.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
• Row count is an estimate ('15,000+'); exact scale is unspecified.

Provenance

Source

Kaggle

Geography

International (implied by title)