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Open Food Facts

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An open barcode database for comparing packaged food worldwide.

Open Food Facts is a volunteer-built database of packaged food products, covering ingredients, nutrition facts, labels, brands, additives, allergens, and scoring systems such as Nutri-Score and Green-Score. Users can search by barcode or browse product facets, while contributors add and update records through the website or mobile apps.

Why it stands out

  • Global, community-maintained scope rather than a single retailer or country catalog.
  • Combines label data with nutrition, processing, environmental, allergen, and ingredient facets.
  • Records can be reused as open data, making it useful beyond consumer lookup.
  • Nonprofit project with stated independence from the food industry.
  • Built for both everyday scanning and structured data access by external tools.

Good to know

  • Coverage and completeness vary because product records are added and maintained by volunteers.
  • Packaged-food data can become outdated when manufacturers change recipes, labels, or packaging.
  • Health-related scores and nutrition details should be checked against the physical label when accuracy matters.
  • Some regions, brands, or niche products may have sparse or missing records.

Under the radar: Use the “Explore products by…” section to browse less obvious facets such as traceability codes, manufacturing places, ingredient origins, and data sources—not just brands or categories.

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