Nutrition & Santé makes what you put on your plate easy to understand. No promises, no miracle superfoods: nutritional values from the official Anses table, recipes whose calories and macros are estimated per portion, and guides that cite their sources.
The site in four figures
- 1 020 food pages, grouped into 17 food groups, each with its nutritional values and tips on how to use it
- 789 balanced recipes, with an estimate of their calories and macronutrients per portion
- 163 guides on diet, health, exercise and eating plans
- 18 free calculators and a glossary of 272 nutrition terms
Why this site exists
Nutrition information online suffers from two ills. On one side, hollow content written for search rankings, repeating generalities without ever giving a figure. On the other, categorical claims about what you should eat, rarely sourced and often contradictory from one site to the next.
Nutrition & Santé tackles the problem the other way round: we start from the data. How many calories, how much protein, how much iron in this food, and where that figure comes from. Only then come the tips, with their limits where they exist.
Who writes
The content is signed The Nutrition & Santé editorial team. Behind that signature is a small team that writes the guides, food pages, recipes and career pages, and builds the site’s calculators. To find out how it works, which sources it relies on and what it rules out, read the introduction to the editorial team.
For content that touches on health, a deficiency or a food supplement, we rely on official French and European references as well as the scientific literature. A health professional will soon join the team to review and validate this content; their name will then appear at the top of each page concerned.
How we work
The figures come from an official source
The vast majority of the site’s nutritional values come from the Anses Ciqual table, 2025 version. A minority of pages, which Ciqual does not cover, rely on USDA FoodData Central or Open Food Facts; the source is then shown on the page itself. The version and update date are shown on each page. When a value is missing from Ciqual, it stays blank: we never show a zero in place of an unknown value.
The advice is sourced
Every statement that affects your health is linked to its source: a study on PubMed, an opinion from Anses or EFSA, a Vidal entry (the French drug reference) for a drug interaction. The links are clickable in the body of the article, not tucked away at the bottom of the page.
The tools state their formula
Each calculator states the calculation method it applies and its limits. You can check, recalculate, challenge. The detail of each formula is published on our methodology page.
What we don’t know, we say
On many subjects, the evidence is weak or contradictory. When that is the case, we write it rather than take sides. A nuanced answer is more useful than a false but reassuring one.
This site does not replace a professional
Nothing you read here is medical advice. If you have a medical condition, are on treatment, are pregnant or have doubts about your diet, talk to your doctor or a registered dietitian-nutritionist.
How the site is funded
Nutrition & Santé is free and funded by affiliate links. When a link takes you to a shop and you buy, we earn a commission, at no extra cost to you.
This model has a consequence that we state openly: it must never influence the content. In practice, a product’s score is calculated before any commercial link is added to it, our comparisons systematically include non-affiliated products, and a product with no partnership is never left out of the ranking. The full procedure is published on our methodology page.
A mistake? Tell us
A missing source, a price that has changed, a figure that doesn’t look right: report it. We check, we correct, and we update the verification date shown at the top of the article concerned. It is the only way to keep the promise of this page.