What is Open Food Facts?
Open Food Facts is a comprehensive database of food products from around the world, offering detailed information on ingredients, allergens, nutrition facts, and more. This collaborative, free, and open platform is driven by a community of over 1,800 contributors who have added data on 75,000+ products from 150 countries. Leveraging the power of crowdsourcing, users can use the Android, iPhone, or Windows Phone app to scan barcodes, upload product images, and share information about the foods they consume, making it a valuable resource for making informed food choices
Highlights
- Expansive database of food products from around the world
- Collaborative, crowdsourced platform with over 1,800 contributors
- Detailed product information including ingredients, allergens, and nutrition facts
- Open data available for anyone to access and reuse
Platforms
- Android
- Online
- iPhone
- Windows Phone
- F-Droid
- iOS
- Web
- iPad
Languages
- English
- Afar
- Afrikaans
- Akan
- Albanian
- Amharic
- Arabic
- Armenian
- Assamese
- Azerbaijani
- Bambara
- Basque
- Belarusian
- Bengali
- Bosnian
- Breton
- Bulgarian
- Burmese
- Khmer
- Catalan; Valencian
- Chechen
- Chuvash
- Cornish
- Corsican
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- Esperanto
- Estonian
- Faroese
- Finnish
- French
- Scottish Gaelic; Gaelic
- Galician
- Georgian
- German
- Greek
- Gujarati
- Haitian; Haitian Creole
- Hausa
- Hebrew
- Hindi
- Hungarian
- Icelandic
- Indonesian
- Inuktitut
- Irish
- Italian
- Japanese
- Javanese
- Kannada
- Kazakh
- Kirghiz
- Korean
- Kurdish
- Lao
- Latin
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Luxembourgish
- Malagasy
- Malay
- Malayalam
- Maltese
- Maori
- Marathi
- Mongolian
- South Ndebele
- Nepali
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Norwegian Nynorsk
- Occitan
- Persian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Panjabi
- Quechua
- Romansh
- Romanian
- Russian
- Sango
- Sanskrit (Sa?sk?ta)
- Sardinian
- Serbian
- Southern Sotho
- Tswana
- Shona
- Nuosu
- Chinese
- Sindhi
- Sinhala
- Swati
- Slovak
- Slovene
- Somali
- Spanish
- Swahili
- Swedish
- Tagalog
- Tahitian
- Tajik
- Tamil
- Tatar
- Telugu
- Thai
- Tibetan Standard
- Tigrinya
- Tsonga
- Turkish
- Twi
- Uighur
- Ukrainian
- Urdu
- Uzbek
- Venda
- Vietnamese
- Walloon
- Welsh
- Wolof
- Xhosa
- Yiddish
- Yoruba
- Zulu
Features
Barcode Scanner
Wiki-like interface
Community-based
Real time collaboration