Open Food Facts
Business Profile
Core Value Proposition
Open Food Facts provides a collaborative, free and open database of food products from around the world, enabling consumers to scan barcodes, view ingredients, nutrition facts, allergens, and nutrition/environment scores to inform healthier and more transparent choices.
Target Customer
Global consumers seeking information about what they eat; educators and students; researchers; developers and data scientists who reuse open data; contributors and producers who participate in the database.
Key Differentiator
Open Food Facts is an open-data, volunteer-driven, non-profit database that operates independently of the food industry and supports broad data reuse across multiple domains (food, cosmetics, pet food, and other products).
Implementation Timeline
Instant value can be gained by using the app to scan foods and view labels; data and insights are available immediately, with ongoing contributions expanding coverage over time.
Pain Points
- 1Difficulty understanding ingredients, nutrition facts, and allergen information on packaged foods.
- 2Lack of transparent, open data about food products for education, research, and application development.
- 3Limited ability to compare products on nutrition and environmental impact in a centralized, openly accessible dataset.
Key Features
- 1Mobile apps (Android and iPhone) to scan barcodes and upload product data.
- 2Open data database with ingredients, allergens, nutrition facts, and label information.
- 3Nutri-Score (nutrition quality score) and Green-Score (environmental impact) insights.
- 4Advanced search with dozens of facets and the ability to generate graphs/maps for insights.
- 5Specialized sub-projects (Open Beauty Facts, Open Pet Food Facts, Open Prices) and APIs/SDKs for data reuse.
Target Customer Industries
Client Results
- 1Increased transparency about ingredients, nutrition, and allergens for global foods.
- 2Ability to compute and compare nutrition and environmental impact scores for products.
- 3Open data that supports education, research, and development of new products and services.
- 4Large, collaborative community contributing to a growing global product database.
Competitive Advantages
- 1Open data license and data reuse (ODbL) enabling broad use by anyone for commercial or non-commercial purposes.
- 2Non-profit, volunteer-driven model independent of the food industry, increasing trust and transparency.
- 3Global scale (millions of products, thousands of contributors) and multi-domain coverage (food, cosmetics, pet food, other products).
- 4Built-in health and environmental scoring (Nutri-Score, Green-Score) to aid quick assessments.
- 5APIs, SDKs and a developer-friendly environment for data integration and reuse.
Key Benefits
Additional Product Information
Product Description
A collaborative, free and open database of food products from around the world with ingredients, allergens, nutrition facts and other label information; data is open and reusable under an open data license.
Target Market
Global consumers, educators, researchers, developers/data scientists, and producers/contributors who participate in data collection and reuse.
Unique Value Proposition
A free, open, and participatory database that anyone can contribute to and reuse, backed by a non-profit structure and independent of the food industry, with multi-domain coverage and actionable nutrition/environmental insights.
Technical Requirements
Backend implemented with Perl and MongoDB; API returns JSON; front-end uses templated HTML5 and JavaScript with Foundation; mobile apps built with Flutter for iOS and Android. Data, API and SDKs are available for developers.
Pricing Model
Free to use; funded by donations and a 2025 fundraiser; the database and data are open data, published under an open data license, and reusable for various purposes.
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