Open Food Facts
A collaborative, free and open database of food products worldwide
Open Food Facts is a crowdsourced, open database containing ingredients, nutrition facts, and other information on food products from around the world. It serves millions of visitors monthly and provides a public API for developers and researchers. Anyone can contribute product data or reuse the database freely for any purpose.
Users and contributors scan or manually add food products to a shared open database, which is freely accessible via a website, mobile app, and API.
consumers, researchers, developers, and anyone interested in food product transparency
Background.
- Status
- launched
- Business model
- free
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