About ThaliFacts
A reference site for Indian food, not a diet blog.
Why this exists
Nutrition data for Indian food is either missing or in the wrong units. The big calorie databases are built on American foods and American portions, so they will tell you about "flatbread, whole wheat, per 100 g" and leave you to work out what that has to do with the two rotis on your plate. Meanwhile the Indian data that does exist — the ICMR–NIN composition tables — sits in a book that almost nobody searching for "2 roti calories" will ever open.
ThaliFacts publishes 246 Indian dishes with the serving weight named at the top of every page, the per-100 g table underneath it, and the arithmetic in between shown rather than hidden. If you want one number it is in the first line. If you want to know how much to trust it, that is here too.
Who runs it
ThaliFacts is built and maintained by Amit Sharma, a marketer based in Auckland, New Zealand, alongside a family of free data tools published at amit.marketing. I am not a dietitian, which is precisely why this site sticks to publishing composition data and serving weights rather than handing out diet advice.
How it is funded
Advertising, through Google AdSense, and links to my own fitness challenge at PeakForm. Nothing here is a paid placement and no figure has ever been adjusted to suit an advertiser.
Corrections
Data corrections are prioritised over everything else. If a number disagrees with IFCT 2017, the book wins. Tell me and it gets fixed on the next build.