Open Food Facts

What is 🍊 Open Food Facts?

A food products database

Open Food Facts is a database of food products with ingredients, allergens, nutrition facts and all the tidbits of information we can find on product labels.

Made by everyone

Open Food Facts is a non-profit association of volunteers. 25.000+ contributors like you have added 1.7 million + products from 150 countries using our Android, iPhone or Windows Phone app or their camera to scan barcodes and upload pictures of products and their labels.

For everyone

Data about food is of public interest and has to be open. The complete database is published as open data and can be reused by anyone and for any use. Check-out the cool reuses or make your own!

• https://world.openfoodfacts.org/discover

Projects documentation

If you are here, you might be looking for technical documentation about the project.

To get data, head to Open Food Facts Data page (or the one of Open Pet Food Facts, Open Beauty Facts or Open Products Facts,

Or if you build an app, use the API documentation for Open Food Facts.

We also have documentation for various projects:

• The mobile App smoothie
• ProductOpener, the Open Food Facts backend (website)
• Open Prices, tracking prices
• Robotoff the AI/Machine Learning helper
• Our infrastructuer documentation
• Search-a-licious the search engine
• Facets knowledge panels, adding information on facets

Some SDK documentation

• Dart SDK
• Python SDK
• Node JS SDK

How can I help?

Please read our Contributor introduction

🌐 Translate Open Food Facts in your language

You can help translate the Open Food Facts web version and the app at : https://translate.openfoodfacts.org/ (no technical knowledge required, takes a minute to signup)