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teolemon
10y ago
http://howmuchsugar.in Nice little sugar game for children based on Open Food Facts ( http://world.openfoodfacts.org , http://android.openfoodfacts.org and http://ios.openfoodfacts.org )
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teolemon
10y ago
+1 We have http://android.openfoodfacts.org http://ios.openfoodfacts.org to check products (and more importantly liberate products :-) Also, we're looking for all the help we can get: barcode scanners, design
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teolemon
10y ago
We also have a GitHub with the source code for the Android, iPhone apps… at: https://github.com/openfoodfacts/ A data page: http://world.openfoodfacts.org/data An API doc at : http://en.wiki
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teolemon
10y ago
Open Food Facts is a volunteer project, so you can help if you're a coder, a translator, if you have a fridge and a smartphone :-) https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/open-food-facts/id588797948 https:/
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Open Food Facts, the wikipedia of food, reaches 100K products in 177 countries
(en.blog.openfoodfacts.org)
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teolemon
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teolemon
10y ago
Help us document all the olive oils sold worldwide by taking photos of the packaging. It won't solve the whole problem stated by the article, but it's a good start. http://android.openfoodfacts.org or http://
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teolemon
10y ago
Yes, there's a login button in the Android app. We also have OCR and autocompletion to help with the typing.
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teolemon
10y ago
We 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 wer
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teolemon
10y ago
YES :-) 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 info about what you're a
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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 s
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teolemon
10y ago
Can someone with access to the pack take pictures using the Open Food Facts app ? http://android.openfoodfacts.org or http://ios.openfoodfacts.org
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Open Food Facts turns 4 ! 3776 contributors, 83K products
(en.blog.openfoodfacts.org)
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teolemon
10y ago
Can Sam provide proper voice talent ? :-)
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teolemon
11y ago
http://world.openfoodfacts.org/cgi/search.pl?action=process&... We have them :-) We also store every single revision of the product, but we don't display the changes yet. Join us on http://slack.ope
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teolemon
11y ago
have a look at https://www.jobmindapp.com/landing/new/
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Open Food Facts reaches 50k food products and launches a worldwide scan party
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The Open Food Hunt is now open…
(world.openfoodfacts.org)
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teolemon
12y ago
http://world.openfoodfacts.org/data and http://en.wiki.openfoodfacts.org/Project:API contact@openfoodfacts.org if you have any questions
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teolemon
12y ago
yes it is. you have a read API being built at http://world.openfoodfacts.org/data and a basic write one at http://en.wiki.openfoodfacts.org/Project:API If you'd like to help improve it, send a mail to
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teolemon
12y ago
We have a system of labels (for halal, kosher, vegetarian/vegan) which you can see at: http://en.wiki.openfoodfacts.org/Global_labels_taxonomy We're also looking at religious certification authorities. We need he
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Yes: so far we have a revision history for each product, and a revert system, we use the photos to ensure accuracy of data and we rely on the Barcode to limit duplication. If you're interested in helping on quality, please send me your
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teolemon
12y ago
Yes, we have a tagged dataset, and image recognition would just be awesome. Can you send a mail to pierre@openfoodfacts.org so that I can invite you to the OpenFoodFacts slack, so that we can discuss it further ?
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teolemon
12y ago
Can you send a mail to pierre@openfoodfacts.org so that I can invite you to the OpenFoodFacts slack. Barcodes are indeed a tedious issue.
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teolemon
12y ago
no need to :-) http://world.openfoodfacts.org/data
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teolemon
12y ago
Open Food Facts is free as in speech as well as free as in Beer (The Open Food Facts database is available under the Open Database License. The individual contents of the database are available under the Database Contents License. Products
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teolemon
12y ago
It's a bug, thanks for spotting it. I'd be very interested to see what kind of food products were available in East Germany though!
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teolemon
12y ago
For now, you have a write API being built at http://world.openfoodfacts.org/data and http://en.wiki.openfoodfacts.org/Project:API If you'd like to use the API to contribute or help improve it, send a
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teolemon
12y ago
You have all the labels available at http://world.openfoodfacts.org/labels but you still should of course exercise caution and read the packaging. http://world.openfoodfacts.org/label/vegan http:/
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teolemon
12y ago
We're actually looking for both technical and non technical contributors, on a wide range of topics. We have a Wiki ( http://en.wiki.openfoodfacts.org ) Slack ( http://openfoodfacts.slack.com ) and the source code i
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teolemon
12y ago
Price would be quite difficult to track, but I guess an app using Open Food Facts data could do it using crowdsourcing :-)
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