Open Food Facts
FreeOpen database of food products from around the world: scan or search any barcode for ingredients, Nutri-Score, additives and eco-impact, built by volunteers as a Wikipedia for food. Free.
Why we recommend Open Food Facts
Open Food Facts is the Wikipedia of food, and the comparison is earned: a volunteer-built open database of millions of products whose data — ingredients, Nutri-Score, NOVA ultra-processing classification, Eco-Score — powers hundreds of nutrition apps including Yuka. Because the data is open, no company can quietly bias what you see toward advertisers; because it is crowdsourced, coverage of local and regional products beats commercial databases in many countries.
Best use cases
Best for: checking what is actually in a product beyond the marketing (additives, allergens, palm oil, degree of processing), comparing similar products by Nutri-Score while shopping, researchers and developers needing open food data via the API, and contributing scans of missing products to a genuine commons.
Honest limitations
Crowdsourced data means occasional gaps, outdated formulations and photo-quality issues on less-scanned products. Scores like Nutri-Score compress nutrition into a letter and are debated for edge cases (olive oil, cheeses). The web interface is functional but utilitarian — most consumer polish lives in the mobile apps built on top.
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