stephanebiz

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by stephanebiz 10y ago
We need more open data on birthday cakes! Food Fact: the more birthday cakes you eat, the longer you live!
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by stephanebiz 11y ago
Also no ingredients it seems. :-(
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by stephanebiz 11y ago
I need to look again but I believe it contains mostly "average" generic products, not branded products. And no images of the product and its packaging unfortunately. Also there are no barcodes for the branded products. e.g. http:
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by stephanebiz 11y ago
The US is #6 in terms of number of products on Open Food Facts. Can you help me get the US to #5? Only a couple of dozens of products is needed.
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by stephanebiz 12y ago
True. But there are only a few different types of gas, and in the US alone, there are 50000 new food products introduced on supermarket shelves every year: http://www.ers.usda.gov/Briefing/FoodMarketingSystem/new_p
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by stephanebiz 12y ago
It's definitely possible. There's a game that uses the Open Food Facts data and asks you to guess how much sugar there is in a product (the whole package). It also uses the same physics engine as Angry Birds (box2d) to make sugar
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by stephanebiz 12y ago
Open Food Facts uses UPCs to identify products, it's the primary key of the database, and it's available on each product page. Food data needs to be public, free and open, it's way too important and useful to be kept behind a
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by stephanebiz 12y ago
We are trying to build a taxonomy of ingredients so that we can automatically analyze the ingredients list and find out if it's suitable for vegans, vegetarians, people who cannot eat gluten, lactose etc. There's still a lot of wo
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by stephanebiz 12y ago
Indeed it will be very interesting to see how products evolve over time. Open Food Facts also has a "Food Archeology" project. The idea is to find old products and put them in the database as well. Anyone knows soda cans collector