The database contains more than 625,000 food and restaurant items.
There is also an app, Gluten Free Restaurant Items, that is a fast-food diet guide for people with celiac disease and wheat allergies.
The researchers tested it on a few restaurant items themselves and found gluten in a "gluten-free" salad, and egg protein in beer (gross).
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service, consumers purchased 25.67 billion pounds of beef at restaurants and groceries last year, and around 5 billion of that was ground beef for hamburgers, spaghetti and other popular restaurant items.
The company is also hoping to build a mobile app that will help its users share the results of their tests with others and educate them about which restaurant items are safe for those with food allergies or food sensitivity.
It wasn't totally unpleasant, but much like most chain restaurant items consumed in other countries under the pretence of them being somehow different, it was disappointing.
Decades of January diets, public exhortations to exercise, mandatory labeling of packaged foods and calorie contents of restaurant items and even the banning of trans fat has had little visible effect.
Consequently, the consumption of ready-made meals, such as ready-to-heat pre-packaged dishes available at grocery stores and fast-food restaurant items, has increased.
In July 2008, New York City implemented a policy that required restaurant items to contain a maximum of 0.5 g trans fatty acids per serving.
Access to neighborhood grocery stores and farmers' markets appears to be associated with healthier food intake and lower levels of overweight and obesity (65, 67– 69), while greater availability of fast food restaurants and lower prices of fast food restaurant items appear to be associated with poorer diet.
