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We're trying to end this. Open Food Facts is an open, collaborative effort to try to make more sense of food and food packagings. A bit like Wikipedia, but for
by teolemon 10y ago
We're trying to end this.
Open Food Facts is an open, collaborative effort to try to make more sense of food and food packagings.
A bit like Wikipedia, but for food.
Using smartphones, you can scan any food item and get detailed and structured data about what you're about to buy/eat.
If the item is not yet in the database, you can help by taking a picture, so that next time there will be detailed facts.
You can peruse it at http://world.openfoodfacts.org http://world.openfoodfacts.org
We have Apps for
Android (http://android.openfoodfacts.org http://android.openfoodfacts.org)
iPhone (http://ios.openfoodfacts.org http://ios.openfoodfacts.org)
Windows Phone (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/apps/openfoodfacts/9nblggh0dkqr https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/apps/openfoodfacts/9nb...)
It's Open Data, so feel free to use the API in your apps and let your users contribute to end this (OdBL licence)
Also, we're looking for volunteer contributors and developers from all over the world to:
- translate it to more languages
- add food from your fridge
- enhance the apps and web version
- rasur 10y agoThis is an awesome idea and I have just signed up & contributed already.
- tirant 10y agoUnfortunately, if you care about food, you will be buying almost everything unpackaged, so no barcode to scan. But indeed, it's a good initiative.
- ep103 10y agoWait, how does your website take care of this problem? I clicked on a few items, and it just seemed to list the ingredients and nutritional information.
- teolemon 10y agoWe list labels and claims, and enable calculations like calorie average on a food category, nutritional score calculations, and many other things. We try to make it easier to read, decypher and compare food info. Was there a feature you were expecting ?
- zymhan 10y agoHow does this address the issue of, say, one type of fish being sold as another?
- dbc00per 10y agoThis sounds cool. I'll be in touch.
- SamBam 10y agoIf I try to use your site to find out which "extra virgin" olive oils are cutting their oil with cheaper canola oil -- the only "packaged" product this article talks about -- I can find no such information. So how does this site help "end this" practice?