Author: Gala Nafikova

valentines day

Zoom on chocolates

❤️🍫 This Valentine’s Day, fall in love with chocolates that are the perfect match for your taste buds!  Thanks to Open Food Facts:   ✔ compare your products,  ✔ identify labels that respect producers and the planet  ✔consult the different scores (Nutri-score, Eco-Score, Nova classification) ✔save your favourites & share with others. Fancy a challenge? …

Open Food Facts at Fosdem 2024

Open Food Facts @ FOSDEM: How Open Source and Open Data have a positive impact on our daily lives

Last weekend, Open Food Facts was at FOSDEM 2024! Anca, Ludo, Alexandre, Pierre and Christian from the Open Food Facts crew got the chance to connect with many European libre lovers on the campus of the University of Brussels.  FOSDEM, standing for Free and Open Source software Developers’ European Meeting, is an annual conference and …

pulses

Pulses Day

10th February: World’s international day of pulses 🫘🫘🫘 ! Pulses are the edible seeds of leguminous plants cultivated for both food and feed. Beans (Phaseolus and Vigna), chickpeas and peas are the most well-known and commonly consumed types of pulses, but there are several varieties more from around the world, all with great benefits on food security, …

Introducing Open Prices

We’re happy to announce Open Prices, the first open crowdsourced database of food prices!
The goal is to collect and share prices of food products around the world.

Open Food Facts on BBC Morning Live

🎉 Exciting news! The Open Food Facts mobile app was featured on BBC Morning Live in a segment on ultra-processed foods (UPFs). Dr Alexander Van Tulleken demonstrated how one can easily spot ultra-processed foods using our app. And you can do it before you actually buy a product, in store, simply by scanning the product’s barcode using the app. …

What a year ! A look back at 2023

Dear supporters and community members, 🎅🏻The entire Open Food Facts community wishes you a very happy festive season, and thanks you for being part of the adventure in 2023 with us! Let’s look back at some of our collective accomplishments at Open Food Facts.  1. Community – the heartbeat of this project! The Open Food …

Highlights from Open Source Experience fair

On 6 and 7 December, Open Food Facts attended the annual #OSXP2023 event in Paris. The show focuses on open source technologies, solutions and challenges in France and Europe, and highlights the driving role of open source innovations in the digital transformation of organisations. “In a world where digital technology is becoming more pervasive by …

Open Food Facts needs you: join us in changing the food sector

The world is experiencing difficult times on many fronts, including the economic one. As inflation and food shortages drive many households to look for cheaper alternatives, some may have to compromise on health.  Transparency on food products still has a way to go. We’ve seen with the wave of shrinkflation or in the recent study …

NEW: Community Grants

Community is at the heart of Open Food Facts. The project that benefits millions of people across the world relies greatly on the effort of passionate contributors, volunteering their time and skills to grow the food database each and every day !  One of the goals of Open Food Facts is to see communities thrive …

Open Food Facts Days 2023: celebrating community

Highlight of the year  Our community weekend took place last weekend (21 & 22 October) – and it was a truly memorable time!  In the heart of Paris  We were fortunate to meet once again at the Académie du Climat in Paris. This year, the Hall of Festivities (la Salle des Fêtes) was made available …