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This is my database design.

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 Foods
 0
 FoodName: "Baked Beans In Tomato Sauce"
 FoodRecipe: 
 FoodUri: 
 Image: 
 
 1
 FoodName: "Another bean 
 
 

I'm working on an ios project and this is how my firebase json structured.

let ref = Database.database().reference()
func searchFoodByName(FoodName: String)
 let foodsRef = ref.child("Foods")

 let input = FoodName
 let query = foodsRef.child(key).queryOrdered(byChild: "FoodName").queryEnding(atValue: input)
 query.observeSingleEvent(of: .value, with: snapshot in
 print(snapshot)
 for child in snapshot.children 
 let snap = child as! DataSnapshot
 let dict = snap.value as! [String: Any]
 let fName = dict["FoodName"] as! String
 let fIngredients = dict["Ingredients"] as! [String]
 print(fName)
 print(fIngredients)

 let key = snapshot.key
 print(key)
 
 ) 

I'm trying to filter my food objects by their names. I have 10 objects in my database. In most cases this search return true objects. But there is one example i can not solve.

When i query the "tomato" word i need to get 1 object. But there is two. Although there is no tomato word in my second object.

The two object is in my json file.

If it is necessary i can upload my whole JSON file to here.

You seem to assume that Firebase can filter based on strings that contain a value, but it can't. See Firebase query - Find item with child that contains string (and the many links from there).

What Firebase can do is search for string values that start with a certain value. You do that by using a combination of queryStarting(atValue:) and queryEnding(atValue:):

let query = foodsRef
 .queryOrdered(byChild: "FoodName")
 .queryStarting(atValue: input)
 .queryEnding(atValue: input+"\uf8ff")

If you use this query, and input is ``Baked`, it will only match the first food from your JSON.