Author: Stéphane Gigandet

Open Food Facts is getting a makeover!

Open Food Facts is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year 🎂. 10 years of commitment towards food transparency and open data.10 years that have resulted in several successes: 🤳🥗 In addition to the official Open Food Facts app, which has been around since 2013, more than 200 food apps around the world source their data from Open Food Facts. …

Choosing the best food becomes personal on Open Food Facts!

The Open Food Facts website and our new mobile app Smoothie for Android or iPhone now allow you to immediately see how well food products match YOUR personal preferences (while fully respecting YOUR privacy). What’s the most important to you when choosing food products? At Open Food Facts, we know that everyone is unique, with …

Open Food Facts is recruiting a full-stack developer

(Français) Open Food Facts is quickly growing and expanding internationaly, and we are looking for a full stack developer to join our team. If you like to have a large-scale impact and values like transparency, the common good and the sharing of knowledge are important to you, please read on! Open Food Facts is an …

1 million products and 1 million thanks to all Open Food Facts contributors!

Open Food Facts now has 1 million food products worldwide! A huge thank you to the tens of thousands of people who have joined the Open Food Facts project since 2012, who have added products, photographed them, and entered their information in our great Wikipedia of food! Thanks to you, we have been able to …

Introducing Open Products Facts – All your products belong to us

Yesterday morning, the Open Food Facts team woke up to a stunning revelation. Collecting the world’s food, cosmetic and pet food was so passé. With the insane progress made over the past year, we must surely be close to completing our mission to collect all the food and cosmetic products in the world, right ? …

Open Food Facts celebrates its 5th anniversary with more than 1000 cakes!

Launched on May 19, 2012 with 700 products, Open Food Facts – a collaborative, free and open database on food products from around the world – now totals more than 320,000 products, thanks to nearly 6,000 contributors who – using their smartphones – scan the barcodes of products, take photos and add them to the …

Goodbye Open Food Facts and Open Beauty Facts: welcome to Open Pet Food Facts!

Introducing Open Pet Food Facts In the grand tradition of making technology available to pets and pets owners, the team of volunteers behind Open Food Facts and Open Beauty Facts is proud to introduce a solution to the looming overweight issue with pets. Meet Open Pet Food Facts Dog Food, Cat Food, Bird Food or …

Know what you eat: Open Food Facts opens the data for 100K food products from 177 countries

We eat 3 times a day, but we know very little about what we eat. To make it easier to better choose our food, more than 4600 individuals – like you and I – have been scanning barcodes of food products and taking pictures of their ingredients lists and nutrition facts table to contribute them …

Open Food Facts turns 4, 83K food products in open data!

Open Food Facts launched 4 years ago on May 19th 2012. Following the paths of free and open projects like Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap, it has published open data for 83 451 food products from 141 countries thanks to the work of its 3776 contributors. Open Food Facts contributors use their smartphones to scan barcodes of …

50k food products in open data and a worldwide scan party!

Ingredients, additives, nutrition facts and much more data is now openly available for 50 000 food products on the free and open database Open Food Facts. In just 3 years, the 2000 contributors to the Open Food Facts project have opened the data for 50 000 food products from 134 countries by scanning their barcodes …