Author: Gala Nafikova

Food additive emulsifiers & risk of cardiovascular disease in the NutriNet-Santé study

🇫🇷 Open Food Facts & research 👩‍🔬 Another example of our open food database at the service of science. The following study by French researchers from the NutriNet-Santé cohort of the Nutritional Epidemiology Research Team (EREN) found positive associations between the risk of CVD (cardiovascular disease) and the consumption of five individual emulsifiers and two …

Search-a-licious wants to make searching a delicious experience

Open Food Facts is, to our knowledge, the most important Food Open Database. With close to 3 Million products it might not be easy to find relevant information! The project began with quite good search capabilities, offering a lot of aggregations to explore the database, graphics and advanced search capabilities (did you ever explore it?). …

Next Mobile app – results of our co-construction

Over the past several months, our community has been hard at work together, generating ideas, discussing them, giving our opinions through polls – all on the subject of the future of our mobile app.  The aim: how can the app help Open Food Facts have a bigger reach & impact in promoting food transparency around …

Open Food Facts mentioned in The Guardian

 Open Food Facts was highlighted by Rachel Dixon in the Guardian magazine. Learn more about the Nova score, devised by Professor Carlos Monteiro, & use our free app or website to find out how processed are your favorite food products. Open Food Facts has been displaying the Nova score since 2018. Read full article here

Open Food Facts Days are back! 🎉 2023 Edition

SAVE THE DATE: Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd of October 2023 in Paris, France Each year, we dedicate a weekend to the Open Food Facts community and it is a very special time.  Why ?  First of all, because Open Food Facts wouldn’t exist without its community members, in various corners of the world, who …

Community Poll 📱🔥

🎼 “No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.” – Booker T. Washington We are coming to the last push in our exploration as a community to define the next direction for the Open Food Facts mobile app 📱✨ We are almost there thanks to our combined efforts ! 👏 Throughout …

The new Open Food Facts app is now on F-Droid!

Last year, to mark the 10th anniversary of Open Food Facts, we launched our new mobile app on Android and iOS. Completely redesigned, it’s more fun, personalised and ready to welcome new features as part of our “One million users for the Open Food Facts mobile app” co-construction. As a result, since 2022, the app …

Help us define the future of the Open Food Facts mobile app!

Last year, we built a whole new mobile app for Open Food Facts. 2 months ago, we mailed you about the collaborative process to imagine its future. A fraction of you have brainstormed hard over the last few weeks to come up with 4 tracks, and associated features 🤩.  It’s now time to assess if the ideas the …

Global food database also for the Czech Republic 🇨🇿

This article is written by a contributor of Open Food Facts Jiří.

It’s been over a year since I started volunteering with the Open Food Facts project. That is, another activity in my spare time.

I would like to try to give a short introduction from my point of view.  Although the main creators are doing it themselves on the website. I just translated the website interface into Czech to better understand and use it.

Open Food Facts Images on AWS Open Dataset: The Ultimate Food Image Dataset

Hello everyone! We’re very excited to announce that Open Food Facts Images is now available on AWS Open Dataset. This opens up many possibilities for machine learning enthusiasts and researchers. Open Food Facts is a non-profit organization on a mission to give people the power to understand and change the impact of food on our …