EMZETT.
Login

Emzett Wiki

Open Food Facts

Properties1
tagsglossar, daten, lebensmittel, open-source

1 min read

Open Food Facts

In short: Open Food Facts is a free database, maintained by volunteers, with millions of foods from around the world. Anyone can add products with an app.

In more detail: The data is under the Open Database License (ODbL) and available through an open interface. There are sister projects: Open Beauty Facts (cosmetics), Open Pet Food Facts (pet food), Open Products Facts (other goods) and Open Prices (prices).

Our context: The product scanner queries these databases through our server. Only the barcode number is transmitted. Every result names its source.

In Depth

  • Quality: Volunteer data can contain errors or be outdated or incomplete. That is why the scanner shows the “data quality” and rates nothing that is not in the data.
  • ODbL: You may use the data, must credit the source and share changes under the same licence.
  • Contributing: If a product is missing, you can add it with a photo of the packaging.
  • Barcode: Barcode: EAN, GTIN and GS1.

See also: Barcode: EAN, GTIN and GS1, Nutri-Score

Backlinks