Today we meet the founders of Alivio, an all-in-one application dedicated to dieticians and their patients, which has succeeded in revolutionizing dietary management by leveraging the Open Food Facts database. In this article, we explore their project and how they are using Open Food Facts to help dietitians and their patients. Many thanks to Noa …
Tortoise Media’s Better Food Index has used data from Open Food Facts to reveal that 7 out of 10 products collected to represent the UK’s top 30 food producers are “ultra-processed”. This matters because ultra-processed foods – which contain additives to make them taste better and last longer – have been linked to over-consumption and …
Recently, Sarah E. Nájera Espinosa (Nutrition & Climate researcher and PhD Candidate at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) contacted with Open Food Facts to use the database for her research. More precisely, Sarah and her team are conducting a survey on the availability of novel plant-based food products sold in the UK. …
Open Food Facts is a non-profit organisation that works for food transparency. But not only that! It is also the largest open source food database in the world! 🌍 (yep!) As an open database, operating under an ODbL (Open Database Licence), we allow different stakeholders to access and reuse the data for various projects. Whether it …
Starting as a hobby in 2013, Matthias from the south of Germany started a stock tracking app called “Prepper App“. He was bothered that he forgot lots of food that had gone bad. He wished for a stock tracking app, and found nothing suitable in the app store – so he started an app for …
A team of students from ISEN (a computer science and electronic engineering school in Toulon, France) submited a project for a Windows Phone application to the Imagine Cup 2013, a tech competition organized by Microsoft. The project was selected as one of the finalists for the Imagine Cup France, and if selected will be presented …
