Databases
Information to help you choose food, built from public agencies' documents and research. Alongside Japan's rules, we show those of the EU and other countries with stricter regulation.
Ingredient Checker→
Paste the 原材料名 (ingredient list) from a package: it splits ingredients from additives and points you to the explanations in these databases, marking the additives you chose to flag.
Ingredients A–Z→
42 ingredients that appear in ingredient lists, explained one by one: the labeling rules, food composition data and the products that use them.
Food additives→
42 additive names compared between Japan and stricter rules abroad such as the EU's. Flag the ones you want to avoid.
Pesticides→
183 pesticide active ingredients by class: registration, toxicity class and ADI in Japan, national test results, and evaluations by WHO, the EU and IARC. With explainers on “pesticide-free,” reduced-pesticide labels and toxicity rankings.
Post-harvest pesticides and imported foods→
Fungicides and fumigants used after harvest, and what has been detected in imported citrus, bananas and wheat.
Supplement ingredients→
107 ingredients grouped by function: notifications under Japan's Foods with Function Claims, and whether the EU authorised the claim.
Microplastics→
Study numbers for 23 foods, drinks and kitchen items, and uses and Japan's standards for 15 types of plastic. With studies that found them in the body and their critics, agencies' views, and ways to reduce them at home.