Open Food Facts is more than a database of food products. It is a global community and a non-profit association working together to make food information transparent, accessible, and freely available to everyone. Every year, the members of the Open Food Facts association come together for our General Assembly: an important moment to look back …
Hi everyone, Open Food Facts is not only an open database of food products. It is also an association. As such, we’re happy to invite you to our next General Assembly that will take place on: 🗓️ Wednesday July 1st 2027 from 6 to 9 pm. It’s a key moment for the Open Food Facts …
Another September, another inspiring weekend with the community! The 2025 edition of the Open Food Facts Days brought us back to the beautiful Académie du Climat in Paris, generously hosted once again by the City of Paris. This year’s edition gathered participants from across Europe and beyond to co-construct our citizen project around food transparency …
What are Open Source and Open Data?
Open Source refers to software that guarantees certain rights to users: freedom to see the source code and study it, to use it for any useful purpose, to modify it to adapt it to other uses and to share it with others. Open Data is the equivalent of Open Source for data, which is also guaranteed to be accessible to all, modifiable and shareable. These are the two pillars that make it possible to build digital commons that are open to all. Open Food Facts is one of the digital public goods recognised by the UN.
📬 SAVE THE DATEOur annual community gathering Open Food Facts Days 2025 will take place on the 13-14th September 2025. We hope that many of you will take part in this unique time dedicated to our community. 📍in Paris, France What are you in for ? ✅ Meeting Open Food Facts members from different countries✅ …
Open Prices second community challenge concluded this week. We’re happy to announce that near 500 prices of Eggs were added by contributors during the last month. Voir en plein écran Some quick stats on the challenge: 477 prices, 26 contributors, 279 different products, ~20% of eggs were chocolate and the most expensive egg cost 18€ (chocolate, not ostrich). This …
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 …
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 …
