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 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 …
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 …
Open Food Facts is one of the winners of the OKFN Awards for Open knowledge, Open data and Transparency organized by OKFN Spain with the support of Open Knowledge. The winners were announced in Madrid on Open Data Day, February 21st 2015. Mejor negocio basado en conocimiento abierto #opendata @okfn_spain pic.twitter.com/jsoqXKfzS1 — Carolina (@carol1nth3sky) 21 …
Some Open Food Facts members will be attending FOSDEM 2015 in Brussels this week-end. We are very much looking forward to the great talks like “UI design for open data” from Hollie Lubbock (on Sunday at 13:15 in the “AW1.126” room). While we won’t have a booth or do a presentation, we certainly hope to …
We were delighted when we saw that Food was one of the themes of the Open Data Challenges series run by NESTA UK and the Open Data Institute. This was a really open event dedicated to Food and Open Data, which we believe is a very tasty – and very useful – combination. From the …
Today we are launching Made Near Me, an interactive map that shows where food products sold in the United Kingdom are made. Have you ever noticed those cryptic codes in an ellipse printed on the label of food products, like this one on a Greek Style Organic and Fat Free Yogurt? This “UK VD011 EC” …
NESTA (a UK based innovation charity) and the Open Data Institute are running open data challenges on different themes like energy and housing. One of the challenges is the Food Open Data Challenge, and the question the organizers ask is: “How can we use open data to help people eat more healthily, eat more sustainably …
Open Food Facts começou há dois anos atrás e tem vindo a crescer desde então: até agora, cerca de 900 colaboradores já adicionaram dados sobre mais de 17 mil produtos de todo o mundo! A fim de continuar o desenvolvimento do projecto, encontramo-nos agora no processo de criar uma associação sem fins lucrativos para o …
Open Food Facts started 2 years ago and has been steadily growing ever since: we now have 900 contributors who have added data for more than 17000 products from around the world. In order to continue the development of the project, we are in the process of creating a not-for-profit association for Open Food Facts …
