Open Benchmarks

Foodgeist vs the Field

How Foodgeist compares to every major food database, recipe API, flavor database, and trend platform. Our numbers are pulled live from the platform; competitor numbers are last-known-public from their own marketing pages (sourced in src/lib/competitors.ts, auditable in git).

Last updated: April 16, 2026 at 3:10 AM · Auto-refreshes every 10 minutes

Foodgeist Right Now

130,455

Total Entities

2,812

Techniques

1,499

Recipes

125,286

Ingredients

858

Industrial

Versus Each Competitor

Spoonacular

Recipe + ingredient API

spoonacular.com →

$29 – $449/mo

Recipes365,000aggregated from 75+ sources1,499 (Foodgeist)

Ingredients80,000125,286 (Foodgeist)

Wine pairingsyes—

Verification methodologynone publishedpublished — multi-model with adversarial gate (Foodgeist)

Update cadenceperiodic batchcontinuous (hourly + every 15min for trends) (Foodgeist)

Live trend layernoembedded in graph, lifecycle-tracked (Foodgeist)

Their Weakness · Aggregator. No verification, no science depth, no trend layer.

USDA FoodData Central

Government nutrition DB

fdc.nal.usda.gov →

free / public domain

Foods350,000—

Cooking techniques0—

Sensory datanone—

Cultural originminimal—

Conversational interfacenoneGeist — grounded in own verified graph (Foodgeist)

Update cadencequarterlycontinuous (hourly + every 15min for trends) (Foodgeist)

Their Weakness · Tabular. No technique data. No taste, aroma, culture, or recipes.

Open Food Facts

Crowd-sourced product DB

world.openfoodfacts.org →

free / ODbL

Products3,000,000mostly packaged goods—

Cooking techniques0—

Verified nutritionpartial — crowd quality varies—

Recipe layernone1,499 (Foodgeist)

Trend signalsnoneembedded in graph, lifecycle-tracked (Foodgeist)

Their Weakness · Packaged-food only. Quality varies. No cooking knowledge.

FlavorDB / FlavorDB2

Flavor compound DB

cosylab.iiitd.edu.in →

free / academic

Ingredients936125,286 (Foodgeist)

Flavor molecules25,595—

Cooking techniques0—

Update cadenceperiodic academic releasecontinuous (hourly + every 15min for trends) (Foodgeist)

Public APInofree tier + paid plans (planned launch) (Foodgeist)

Their Weakness · Static research artifact. No app, no API, no live updates.

FooDB (Wishart Lab)

Compound × food matrix

foodb.ca →

free / public

Compounds28,000—

Foods800—

Cooking techniques0—

Recipes01,499 (Foodgeist)

Trend layernoembedded in graph, lifecycle-tracked (Foodgeist)

Their Weakness · Compound-focused. No cooking knowledge or trend signal.

Tastewise

B2B food trend intelligence

www.tastewise.io →

$25K – $200K/yr

Restaurants tracked800,000menu-mining—

Verified technique graphno—

Consumer accessno — enterprise only—

Conversational interfacenoGeist — grounded in own verified graph (Foodgeist)

Open API for indie devsno—

Their Weakness · Enterprise-only walled garden. Locked behind 5-figure contracts.

Allrecipes

Consumer recipe site

www.allrecipes.com →

free / ad-supported

Recipes250,0001,499 (Foodgeist)

Verified science layerno—

Public APInofree tier + paid plans (planned launch) (Foodgeist)

International coverageUS-centric—

Trend signalsnoneembedded in graph, lifecycle-tracked (Foodgeist)

Their Weakness · Ad-laden, US-centric, no API, no science, no technique structure.

Wikipedia (food articles)

Open knowledge wiki

en.wikipedia.org →

free / CC-BY-SA

Food articles50,000rough estimate—

Structured technique datano—

Molecular pairing graphno—

Confidence tiers per claimnoA–F published per claim (Foodgeist)

Live trend signalsnoembedded in graph, lifecycle-tracked (Foodgeist)

Their Weakness · Vast but unstructured prose. No technique graph, no molecular layer.

Foodgeist — Full Stat Sheet

Total entities130,455

Techniques2,812

Recipes1,499

Ingredients125,286

Industrial processes858

Verification methodologypublished — multi-model with adversarial gate

Confidence tier per entryA–F published per claim

Live trend layerembedded in graph, lifecycle-tracked

Update cadencecontinuous (hourly + every 15min for trends)

Conversational interfaceGeist — grounded in own verified graph

Public APIfree tier + paid plans (planned launch)

Licenseplatform proprietary; ingest sources retain licenses

The Verdict

Foodgeist already leads the field on verification rigor, embedded trend layer, update cadence, and grounded conversational interface. Scale catches up mechanically — open ingestion is wiring four million entries in over the next ninety days, every one mapped to molecular evidence.