Open Food Facts
Verified working Sep 16, 2026
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- Packaged-food data can become outdated when manufacturers change recipes, labels, or packaging.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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Consumers checking a packaged food’s ingredients, allergens, or nutrition profile before buying or eating it. Scan products at home or in a store to look up label details quickly. Compare products by nutrition grade, processing level, country, brand, or category. Contribute missing barcode records or improve incomplete product data. Use open food-product data for research, apps, journalism, or public-interest analysis.
Barcode lookup and manual barcode entry; iPhone and Android apps for scanning and contributing; searchable product database with millions of entries; browse pages for countries, brands, categories, labels, ingredients, additives, allergens, packaging, origins, and contributor metadata; advanced search plus graphs and maps; open data, API, and SDK resources.
Technical Notes
- Provides public data, API, and SDK resources for accessing and reusing food-product records.
- The site explicitly supports external reuse of its open data, including heavy API usage by third-party consumers.
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