What is the verified food database?
Search the built-in verified food library, read a food's full details, and copy any item into your own custom foods.
The food database is Fitsly's built-in library of verified foods, ready to drop into any recipe, meal plan, or client food log. It's read-only — you can't edit a database food — but you can copy any item into your own custom foods and change it there.
You'll find it under Nutrition → Foods, on the Food database tab, alongside your Custom foods and Recommended foods.
Search the food database
- Go to Nutrition → Foods and stay on the Food database tab.
- Type in the search box. Each result shows the food's serving, macros, and calories, with a verified badge.
- Click a food, or View details, to see its full details — including micronutrients and every available serving option.
Copy a database food into your custom foods
Copy a food when you need to change something about it — a different serving, a tweaked macro, your own notes.
- Open the database food's details.
- If the food has several serving options, choose the one you want to copy.
- Click Copy to custom.
The copy lands on your Custom foods tab, where every field is editable.
Where database foods appear
| Place | How the database is used |
|---|---|
| Recipe editor | Search database foods to add as ingredients |
| Meal plan editor | Add database foods to any meal option |
| A client's food log | Search the database when logging on a client's behalf |
| The client app | The public database is always searchable by every client |
Your custom foods and recommended foods are extra sources layered on top of the database for a client, and both are off by default per client. The public database itself is always available to every client, whatever those settings say.
Serving measures lock once a database food is added
When you add a database food to a recipe or a meal plan option, you pick its serving measure — "1 medium", "1 cup" — in the picker before adding it. Once it's added, that verified measure is locked. You can still change the amount, but to switch to a different measure you have to remove the food and add it again.
Custom foods don't have this restriction: they stay fully editable wherever you use them.
Quick answers
A barcode scan found nothing — is the product not supported?
Coverage varies by product and country, and Australian accounts scan against the same Australian dataset they search. When there's no match, your client can tap Scan Again, or add the food as their own custom food.