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Open Food Facts Reviews

Open Food Facts gathers information and data on food products from around the world.

Social recommendations and mentions

We have tracked the following product recommendations or mentions on Reddit and HackerNews. They can help you see what people think about Open Food Facts and what they use it for.
  • Where to find projects to contribute on as a UX designer?
    Open Food Facts (a community working to provide open food product information) has a series of minigames where people review OCR data such as identifying food labels and brands. - Source: Reddit / 7 days ago
  • I Created an Open Source, Ad Free, Free Vegan Scanning App.
    The best project I have come across that has a commitment to open data is Open Food Facts. Their scanner app is quite good and has a lot of niceties. However, it is not really directed towards vegans specifically, so it shows a lot of other information about nutrition and whatnot beyond whether an item is vegan or not. Therefore, there could be an "opening in the market", so to speak, for a vegan-focused app that... - Source: Reddit / 3 months ago
  • Sperm counts worldwide are plummeting faster than we thought
    Close, https://world.openfoodfacts.org/ and https://world.openbeautyfacts.org/, by the same association. Crowd-sourced databases that you can query scanning the barcode using their app. The quality and availability of the information you can find varies greatly, but it's very easy to contribute. You won't find much that is not already written on the label though. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
  • Exista undeva o baza de date cu produse alimentare ?
    Ceva de genul? https://world.openfoodfacts.org/. - Source: Reddit / 4 months ago
  • Django calorie tracker project
    Https://world.openfoodfacts.org/ You can check the open food fact api, you can get data and information about food. - Source: Reddit / 5 months ago
  • MyFitnessPal Barcode Scanner Goes Premium and What to Use Now
    Actually there's an open database for food: https://world.openfoodfacts.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago
  • This Toothpaste describes what each of its ingredient is and its purpose
    No need for a QR, products already have barcodes and can be scanned directly into here for all facts. - Source: Reddit / 8 months ago
  • To improve my coding skills, I want to build some exciting android projects, any suggestions developers???
    Before I landed a job, I was working on a snack delivery app that pulled in snacks from the OpenFoodFacts API. The idea was to implement:. - Source: Reddit / 9 months ago
  • Is there an app that I can use to just scan the code on something and it just tells me if it's vegetarian or not?
    Https://world.openfoodfacts.org/ website and app. - Source: Reddit / 11 months ago
  • Dill is a vegan barcode scanner and product database
    Open food facts tries to solve this problem and have a good philosophy behind their data. They also have a great scanner app which lists vegan status among other interesting facts about the food. - Source: Reddit / about 1 year ago
  • Dataset for nutritional facts table of packed food items
    You are looking for Open Food Facts. https://world.openfoodfacts.org/. - Source: Reddit / over 1 year ago
  • WHY IS THERE MILK IN HASHBROWNS???
    I would recommend the open food facts app to everyone looking to see facts about the ingredients in their food, including whether it is vegan. It's a global, open source project that uses data submitted by users so that it can remain open and free. Many vegan scanner apps have proprietary datasets and do not share their data with the community at large, which is what should be done, in my opinion. OFF has some... - Source: Reddit / over 1 year ago
  • The Only Skincare That Works According to Science?
    Related : Open Beauty Facts : https://world.openbeautyfacts.org/ This database of products is a sister project of Open Food Facts : https://world.openfoodfacts.org/ Many apps are based on these two DB. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
  • iOS 15 Could Include New Food Tracking Feature
    Eh I doubt that it’s a lot better than the Open Food Facts database which Apple could use as a (partial) source without any problems. - Source: Reddit / almost 2 years ago
  • I made a centralized, extensible database system called HealthBox, and I'm looking for a freely licensed database of nutrition information for foods.
    I know https://world.openfoodfacts.org/ has a lot of food info, and has a FOSS android app as well. - Source: Reddit / about 2 years ago

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