Meet your amino acids.
See how your foods combine across the day, and how your essential amino acid intake compares with your targets.
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Your nutrition. In full detail.
You know how much protein you eat.
Find out what it’s made of.
Log your meals, see your amino acid profile, and get food suggestions to help you reach your targets.
Free to get started · Works on your phone and computer
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Every gram of protein you eat is built from 20 amino acids, and different foods carry very different mixes of them. Aminodata maps the full profile of 4,000+ foods against your daily needs, so you can see what you are actually getting.
How the tool works, where the numbers come from, and what happens to your data.
A free food diary that goes one level deeper than protein: it maps everything you eat to its full amino acid profile and compares your day with your personal targets. It is built by Logan King and Dr Paul T Morgan, Senior Lecturer in Human Nutrition and Metabolism at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Yes. Browsing the database and trying the diary costs nothing, and a free account unlocks everything else: a month of dated days, saved meals, charts over time, CSV export and syncing across your devices. There is no paid tier.
Open the Food diary, pick a meal (breakfast, lunch, dinner or snacks) and tap Add food. Search covers 10,259 foods and forgives typos, so chickn still finds chicken. Enter grams, or count in items where that is more natural: eggs, slices, scoops, cups or tablespoons.
If you eat the same thing often, open that meal in the diary and tap Save meal. From then on it is one tap to add the whole meal again, and the Saved meals page lets you rename, edit and build meals from scratch. Saved meals sync to your account.
Amino acid profiles and nutrients come from published analytical sources: USDA FoodData Central (SR Legacy), the UK CoFID 2021 tables, and peer reviewed analyses such as Gorissen et al. 2018 for protein powders. Every food cites its source, and the citation links to the exact record.
The baseline is the WHO/FAO/UNU 2007 requirement at your body weight. Because no official figures exist for higher protein intakes, we scale that baseline in proportion to your protein target and say so openly wherever the numbers appear. The default protein target is 1.6 g per kg of body weight, in line with intakes meta-analyses associate with supporting muscle; you can set your own in Account & targets.
The composition score is the lowest essential amino acid ratio against the WHO/FAO/UNU adult pattern, using foods with available profiles. It describes proportions per gram of protein, not daily intake. It is not adjusted for digestibility and is not DIAAS or PDCAAS. A low score does not diagnose a deficiency. Daily intake percentages separately compare logged amounts with your scaled targets.
Food composition and portion estimates can vary. No measured confidence interval is available for daily totals, so the intake bars show no uncertainty band and we do not recommend an automatic 10% margin. Missing data is unknown, not zero.
The diary rolls to a fresh day automatically. Yesterday keeps its date, foods and note, and moves into your history; the diary holds a rolling 31 days, with the oldest dropping off as you keep logging. Each day also remembers the body weight and target it was logged against, so changing your weight today never rewrites last week.
Yes. Data over time charts protein, calories, carbs and fat per day, with a combined macros line chart, and Download CSV exports every food of every logged day, including all twenty amino acids in grams, ready for Excel or any spreadsheet.
Your diary is stored against your account and nowhere else, protected by row level security, and never sold or shared. Signing out leaves the copy on your device untouched, and Account & targets has a delete option that removes your synced data permanently.
No. Aminodata is an educational reference built from public analytical data. It is not a substitute for advice from a doctor or registered dietitian, especially if you have a medical condition. Corrections are welcome through Send feedback.
MEET YOUR NEW FOOD DIARY
From your first breakfast to your full daily profile. Here’s how it comes together.
See your amino acid profile and discover foods that help you reach your targets.
THE WHOLE PICTURE
Your foods bring more than protein to the table. See the details together, in one diary.
See how your foods combine across the day, and how your essential amino acid intake compares with your targets.
Illustrative profileGet food suggestions based on your remaining nutrient targets, with an explanation of why each food is suggested.
Search foods, scan a barcode or photograph a label. Save your usual meals so tomorrow’s diary takes less effort.
Follow protein, calories and macros over time. Explore vitamins, minerals and fats in your diary, then export your data when you need it.
HOW IT WORKS
Enter your protein goal and personalise your daily targets.
Log breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks. Search, scan, or add a saved meal.
See your amino acid profile and get suggestions for ways to optimise your protein intake.
BUILT ON FOOD DATA
Good decisions start with knowing what the numbers mean. Aminodata shows where food data comes from and flags missing nutrient values.
Explore the food profilesA FEW GOOD QUESTIONS
You can create a free account to keep your food diary, save meals and sync them across devices.
No. Aminodata works in your browser on your phone, tablet or computer. You can also add it to your home screen for quicker access.
Yes. Your diary includes calories, carbohydrates, fat, vitamins, minerals and detailed lipids wherever food data is available.
No. Many foods have detailed amino acid data, but some branded foods and scanned labels only provide basic nutrition. Aminodata marks missing data so you can see what is and isn’t included.
No. It compares the food you log with reference or personal targets. It cannot diagnose a deficiency or replace advice from a qualified health professional.
MAKE YOUR NEXT MEAL COUNT
Your everyday foods. A little more understanding.
Log your meals and see how they add up against your daily targets.
Pick a food from the list first.
Choose Add food to search foods and set your portion. Or explore the amino acid database.
Browse food profiles by category · What is an amino acid profile?
Built on the idea that the conversation needs to move past "grams of protein", towards which amino acids you're actually getting, and whether any one of them is quietly short.
Whole-food profiles are drawn from USDA FoodData Central (SR Legacy analytical data). The featured set is hand-curated, and behind search sits the full SR Legacy import: every USDA food with a complete 18-amino-acid profile (4,000+; labs report 18 because the analysis merges glutamine into glutamic acid and asparagine into aspartic acid, so all 20 are accounted for), filtered through basic quality checks. Supplement powders use typical published compositional analyses (e.g. Gorissen et al. 2018) rather than one brand's label. Each entry lists its source.
Food composition varies with breed, cultivar, season and processing. Where a published range is available, the protein profile can show it. Daily intake totals do not have a measured confidence interval, and we do not add an automatic 10% margin to targets.
Protein composition is compared with the WHO/FAO/UNU (2007) adult amino acid pattern in mg per gram of protein. Daily intake uses the adult reference in mg/kg/day × body weight. We then scale that daily reference by your protein goal divided by a 0.8 g/kg protein baseline. This scaling is an Aminodata assumption, not a separate published amino acid requirement. Your protein goal comes from your account settings or the app’s suggestion.
The composition score is the lowest essential amino acid ratio against the adult reference pattern. Below 100% means that ratio is below the pattern; it does not diagnose a deficiency. This score is not adjusted for digestibility and is not DIAAS or PDCAAS.