Open Food Facts: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 18:08, 4 January 2024

Open Food Facts logo 2022

Open Food Facts (.org) is a crowdsourced non-profit open database, web app and mobile apps of food products initiated in 2012 by French programmer Stéphane Gigandet. It is limited to foodstuffs only by the contract, others will be removed and clearly seeks not to be political.

The database is copylefted under w:Open Database License, database entries under Database Contents License and the uploaded photos under CC-BY-3.0 Creative Commons so the database and the photos can be reused in other services so it would seem a good place to contribute as open data is available in various formats.

w:Nutri-score is a nutritional grading system adopted by the French government in 2017. This is one type of information found in the Open Food Facts database because it is on the label. Nutri-score can be approximately calculated for also for products that do not have it on the packaging.

Information verification is based on photos of the labeling on the package. Adding information not featured on the label seems to be forbidden, probably to avoid legal problems arising.

In Wikipedia

Wikipedia on Open Food Facts

Apps

Sites by OFF

Official website
Open Food Facts English wiki
Open Food Facts on GitHub.com
Translation platform for OFF powered by Crowdin.com localization platform
Open Food Facts datasets at datahub.io

Interesting wiki articles

https://en.wiki.openfoodfacts.org/Structured_Data

Sites reusing OFF data set

'Produits alimentaires : ingrédients, nutrition, labels' at data.gouv.fr offers downloads of the data set in CSV, RDF and JSON formats and lists a plethora of services that are reusing OFF data sets (in French)

CIQUAL - French Food Composition Table by the w:Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail (Anses) in French and English
Combien de sucres (.fr) - a game to guess how many sugar cubes are in a food product (in French)
C'est emballé près de chez vous (.fr) - a map interface to manufacturing / packaging locations (in French)
Informations Nutritionelles (.fr) - detailed information about nutrition values in products and product groups (in French)

Spinoffs / expansions of scope

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-[[File:Open Food Facts logo.svg|thumb|right|300px|Open Food Facts logo CC-SA.]]
+[[File:Open Food Facts logo 2022.svg|thumb|right|300px|Open Food Facts logo 2022]]
-'''Open Food Facts''' [https://world.openfoodfacts.org/ (.org)] is a crowdsourced non-profit open database, web app and mobile apps of food products initiated in 2012 by French programmer Stéphane Gigandet. It is limited to foodstuffs only by the contract, other will be removed and clearly seeks not to be political.
+'''Open Food Facts''' [https://world.openfoodfacts.org/ (.org)] is a crowdsourced non-profit open database, web app and mobile apps of food products initiated in 2012 by French programmer Stéphane Gigandet. It is limited to foodstuffs only by the contract, others will be removed and clearly seeks not to be political.
-The database is [[copyleft]]ed under [[w:Open Database License]], database entries under [https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/dbcl/1.0/ Database Contents License] and the uploaded photos under [[w:Creative Commons license|CC-BY-3.0 Creative Commons]] so the database and the photos can be re-used in other services so it would seem a good place to contribute as [https://world.openfoodfacts.org/data open data is available in various formats].
+The database is [[copyleft]]ed under [[w:Open Database License]], database entries under [https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/dbcl/1.0/ Database Contents License] and the uploaded photos under [[w:Creative Commons license|CC-BY-3.0 Creative Commons]] so the database and the photos can be reused in other services so it would seem a good place to contribute as [https://world.openfoodfacts.org/data open data is available in various formats].
-[[File:Nutri-score-A.svg|thumb|right|240px|[[w:Nutri-score]] is a nutritional grading system adopted by the French government in 2017. This is one type of information found in the Open Food Facts database, because it is on the label.]]
+[[File:Nutri-score-A.svg|thumb|right|240px|[[w:Nutri-score]] is a nutritional grading system adopted by the French government in 2017. This is one type of information found in the Open Food Facts database because it is on the label. Nutri-score can be approximately calculated for also for products that do not have it on the packaging.]]
 Information verification is based on photos of the labeling on the package. Adding information not featured on the label seems to be forbidden, probably to avoid legal problems arising.
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 * [https://www.data.gouv.fr/en/datasets/produits-alimentaires-ingredients-nutrition-labels/ 'Produits alimentaires : ingrédients, nutrition, labels' at data.gouv.fr] offers downloads of the data set in [[w:Comma-separated values|CSV]], [[w:Resource Description Framework|RDF]] and [[w:JSON|JSON]] formats and lists a plethora of services that are reusing OFF data sets (in French)
+* [https://ciqual.anses.fr/ CIQUAL - French Food Composition Table] by the [[w:Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail]] (Anses) in French and English
 * [http://combiendesucres.fr/ Combien de sucres (.fr)] - a game to guess how many sugar cubes are in a food product (in French)
 * [http://cestemballepresdechezvous.fr/ C'est emballé près de chez vous (.fr)] - a map interface to manufacturing / packaging locations (in French)
+* [https://informationsnutritionnelles.fr/ Informations Nutritionelles (.fr)] - detailed information about nutrition values in [[product]]s and [[product group]]s (in French)
 '''Spinoffs / expansions of scope '''