The data layer forhow India eats.

Nutrition, recipes, packaged products and regional diets, measured in Indian kitchens and labs. Clean, versioned and ready for your app, your research or your model.

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Built on NIN IFCT 201727,904 Indian labels84,312 recipes in 14 languages36 states & UTs

Kanda poha · Maharashtrav2026.10

254 kcal

per plate · 180 g median

Glycaemic load, measuredCGM

Rice, dal, curdGL 21
Jowar bhakri, pitlaGL 14
Idli, sambarGL 22

Masala oats, 38 glabel v3

1,180 mg sodium

↓ 12% since 2025 reformulation

TN

Tamil Nadu · typical dinner

21:40 · rice, rasam, poriyal

A steel thali with dal, rajma, palak paneer, raita, aloo gobi, kheer, rice, rotis and salad

Six datasets, one schema

Every record joinsevery other.

Shared IDs, units and provenance fields, so a recipe links to its ingredients, its packaged equivalents and the regions that cook it.

    Kosha Foods6,418 recordsv2026.10
    Showing 6 of 6,418GET /v1/foods

    Indian household units

    Nobody in India eats "100 g".

    People eat a katori of dal, two phulkas and a ladle of sabzi. Kosha weighs real household portions across regions, so your app can ask the way people answer.

    Dish

    Portion

    Katori of dal tadka, median 150 g household portion

    150g

    Energy102 kcal
    Protein6.1 g
    Carbs12.8 g

    Median of 1,920 weighed portions across 11 states · Kosha field survey 2025–26

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    API

    Speaks pohe,aval and अवलक्की.

    Search that understands names

    pohe, aval and अवलक्की resolve to the same flattened rice, ranked by your user's state.

    Provenance on every number

    Lab-measured, recipe-calculated or label-read, with sample size and error. You decide what counts as good enough.

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    Free · CC BY 4.0

    • 1,000 common foods, 38 nutrients
    • Household portions, 11 states
    • CSV and Parquet
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    What is Kosha?

    A clean, versioned data layer for Indian nutrition, recipes and packaged products.

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    NIN IFCT 2017, 27,904 Indian labels, 84,312 recipes in 14 languages.

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