Dabas

Look up an actual product by its barcode and get its ingredient list, its allergens and its nutritional values — the branded-product gap that generic food databases leave open.

What it is

Dabas is the Swedish article registry for branded groceries. Where Livsmedelsverket’s database describes food generically — “wheat bread, coarse” — Dabas describes the product on the shelf, with the manufacturer’s own declared ingredients and allergens.

Use it for

• “Look up this GTIN and tell me whether the product contains gluten.”
• “Which allergens are declared on this item?”
• “Find the branded products matching this name and compare their sugar content.”
• “What does this supplier list in their range?”
• “Work out the allergens for this recipe from the products in it.”

Tools

Function	Answers
Usage guide	When to use Dabas rather than a generic food database — the assistant reads this first
Article lookup	One product by GTIN: ingredients, allergens, nutritional values
Article search	Products matching a name or keyword
Supplier range	The articles a given supplier lists
Recipe calculation	Combined allergens and nutritional values across the products in a recipe

Data and permissions

• Read-only. Nothing is written back to the registry.
• Live lookups. Answers reflect what the registry holds at the time of the question.

Getting started

Add the MCP server to an assistant and ask.

Limitations

• Declared data, not tested data. Ingredients and allergens are what the supplier declared to the registry. For a formal allergy assessment the packaging is the authority, not a database.
• Swedish market. A product not listed in Dabas cannot be looked up, and absence is not evidence about the product.
• Branded products. For generic foodstuffs — “carrots”, “rye flour” — Livsmedelsverket is the better source, and the usage guide says so.
• Recipe calculation is arithmetic over declared values. It does not account for preparation, loss or substitution.