The NEVO table in Athverge

What the NEVO table is

NEVO stands for Nederlands Voedingsstoffenbestand, the Dutch food composition database. The RIVM, the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, compiles and maintains it. It describes ordinary foods as they are eaten in the Netherlands: bread, dairy, vegetables, meat, fish and ready meals, with what each product contains.

Athverge uses version 2025/9.0 and takes over the whole table: all 2,328 products, not a selection.

What it holds per product

Alongside energy, protein, carbohydrates, sugars, fat, saturated fat and fibre, each product has up to 29 nutrient values, spread over the three groups below. Not every product has every value: on average around twenty are filled in. That is why the Nutrients screen in the app says how much of your logged food it is based on.

What you see of it in the app

On the Nutrients screen you see 22 vitamins and minerals as a daily average over 7 days, against the reference intake and with your biggest contributors alongside.

The fatty acids, including omega-3, EPA and DHA, are in the data but do not have a view of their own yet. There is no reference intake to set them against, and a number without a yardstick tells you little.

Searching in everyday Dutch names

The RIVM writes many names in a register form, such as "Kool bloem- rauw" for raw cauliflower. The app leaves the code and the data untouched and shows a readable name. On top of that come 274 commonly used products with household portions such as a slice or a handful. Search also understands kitchen Dutch: type ranja, the everyday word for cordial, and you find limonadesiroop.

The table lives in the app itself, so searching it also works without signal, in a basement or on a plane.

Where the NEVO table stops

NEVO describes foods, not brands. A particular pot of yoghurt from the supermarket is not in it with its own label, so the full NEVO table is not every Dutch product.

For that you scan the barcode. The app then searches Open Food Facts, an open database filled by its users, with Dutch products ranked first. That search does need a signal. If a product is not there either, you create it yourself.