Instructions for a scan party: the objective, how to organise it, the resources at your disposal, we tell you all about it! By the way, what is a “scan party”? It’s participatory science in action! More concretely, it is the participatory collection + entry of food products data on the largest open food database in …
The NutriNet-Santé study is a large-scale epidemiological study launched in 2009 in France, aimed at analyzing the links between nutrition, health, and eating behaviors. It relies on the voluntary participation of tens of thousands of “NutriNet users – Nutrinauts” who regularly complete online questionnaires about their diet, lifestyle, and health. The main objectives of NutriNet-Santé …
16 March 2025: Signing of the interministerial order revising the Nutri-Score calculation rules to provide better nutritional information to consumers. Source: Santé publique France Launched in October 2017, Nutri-score has a double objective: ✔️ To inform consumers’ choices regarding the food products they purchase ✔️ To encourage professionals to reformulate their recipes to improve their …
Context and first challenge Open Prices is an Open Food Facts project to collect and share prices of products around the world. You can easily contribute by adding your receipts or taking pictures of prices in stores, helping you track your spendings or following the price evolution of a given product. The data is publicly …
Open Food Facts is a community project, a crowd-sourced open database of food products around the world ! As such, we sometimes organise collective operations, inviting members of the community and users of our free platforms to participate on a specific topic. Here are a couple of examples of collective operations (non-exhaustive list): Collection of …
Nutrition is one of the key indicators of our diet. Some people will focus on certain indicators in particular: sugar or carbohydrates, calories or fat, depending on their concerns. The Nutri-Score stands out because it attempts to give a global and balanced overview by combining it with other elements. Fortunately, in most countries, nutrition information …
25 years of promoting free & open source software 🎉 This year marks the 25th anniversary of FOSDEM, a two-day event organised by volunteers for the promotion of free and open source software, in Brussels (Belgium). It’s a one-of-a-kind get together in Europe. It started in 2000 by Raphael Bauduin, a fan of the Linux …
Hello dear contributor / foodie / fan of the Open Food Facts project / concerned citizen / partner organisation / lover of open data / researcher, We are inviting you join the discussion about our next Open Food Facts Days 2025 ! Let’s come up with the date, place, program together. Give your ideas in just …
As we start this new year, let’s rewind the past year and celebrate what the Open Food Facts community has achieved! It has been a rich year on many fronts, with more initiatives, efforts and leadership by the community members. Our mission is to bring more transparency in the food sector by opening data on …
About the association As many of you know, Open Food Facts is a non-profit association, with an open and collective governance. As such, it meets at a General Assembly every year. During these few hours, the members of the association are updated on the project’s progress, its news, changes, financial accounts, etc. As members, they …
