Open Food Facts
Open Food Facts gathers information and data on food products from around the world.
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Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
- Lightweight
Features
- Community-based
- Barcode Scanner
- Product Research
- Ad-free
- Product Comparison
- Side-by-Side Comparison
- Nutrition Tracking
- Dark Mode
- Real time collaboration
- No registration required
- Calorie Counting
- Food database
- Product Reviews
- Wiki-like interface
Open Food Facts News & Activities
Recent News
Recent activities
Enric-Ochavo added Open Food Facts as alternative to Destripa
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I really like the community-driven approach here. The idea of having a large, open database that people can actually contribute to makes it much more useful than a simple product-scanning app. The recent improvements to OCR and the wider category support are especially interesting.
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What is Open Food Facts?
Open your food and know what you eat Be part of our collaborative, free, and open database of food products from around the world!
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 - Crowdsourcing
Open Food Facts is a non-profit association of volunteers.
Open Food Facts is a non-profit project developed by thousands of volunteers from around the world. You can start contributing by adding a product from your kitchen with our app for iPhone or Android, and we have lots of exciting projects you can contribute to in many different ways.
For everyone - Open data
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! Make better food choices
Knowledge is power. Food knowledge is the power to eat better!
Open Food Facts information
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Stephane Gigandet Licensing
Open Source (Apache-2.0) and Free product.Rating
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Comments and Reviews
Free, open-source, no ads, large database.
I really like the community-driven approach here. The idea of having a large, open database that people can actually contribute to makes it much more useful than a simple product-scanning app. The recent improvements to OCR and the wider category support are especially interesting.
A great tool for consumers, probably the closest equivalent to Yuka, but open-source and no longer limited to food and ingredients. Prices can also be added, and non-food categories have recently been better integrated. Sometimes the submission of changes freezes, and you’re not quite sure whether to wait or do something else in the meantime… At that point, the best thing to do is to scan the barcode again and use the website rather than the app.
The purpose of this app is noble... But, ease of using it is simply very bad... The user experience needs serious improvements... Adding a product to the database is also time consuming and confusing, literally, you've to use all of brainpower for it... Uploaded photos gets to very low resolution and blurry... Scaning nutrition chart from round bottles when updating information doesn't work as it should support panorama mode or similar... Also, manually adding nutrients values one by one takes a lot of time and is not user-friendly in my opinion... Simply, can't be used in most cases, as most products are missing from database...
There have been clear improvements over the last two years, particularly in terms of how easy it is to contribute. That said, taking five minutes to fill in a nutrition fact sheet isn’t really something that bothers me. A good tool like this, which is worth its salt, needs all this information. This is a community-driven service, just like OpenStreetMaps or OpenLibrary. You’re free not to contribute if you find it a bother. And according to my latest tests, OCR recognition on curved shapes has also been greatly improved :)
This app does not track anything on itself, but the barcode database is made available for other nutrition tracking apps, e.g. OpenNutriTracker.
Very good, quite complete.
However, the additives are not coloured (green, red, orange, yellow...) according to their degree of harmfulness... As a result, visibility is not obvious...
Open Food Facts is free, open source and easy to contribute to!