A researcher’s story: how I used Open Food Facts for my research

Presentation Dr. Aulesa, PhD, Emeritus of Biochemistry at Valle de Hebrón Hospital, Barcelona (Spain), and author/co-author of 98 publications (ResearchGate.net). Upon becoming emeritus, I found more time to dedicate to one of my hobbies: nutrition. I am convinced that food is the main medicine for humans. As a biochemist, I have always been interested in …

Help Open Food Facts to continue informing millions of consumers 🍽🥫

As an open data, community based organisation, at Open Food Facts we depend very much on you all to make an impact, and we want to thank you warmly for being part of the project 🙌. Every year, we embark on a new season of fundraising for our non-profit organisation. All help is very welcome. …

Open Food Facts’ India Database Reaches 10K Product Milestone!📈🎉

Post written by an Open Food Facts contributor krishanti. Repost from India Food Stats, article published on September 15, 2024. I’ve been actively contributing to Open Food Facts (OFF) – the Wikipedia of Food & an open-data project focused on food transparency and nutrition since January 2023, participating in both data collection and review. Recently, we’ve hit …

A look back at the Open Food Facts professionals annual meet-up in Paris

Open Food Facts is fundamentally a community of volunteer contributors, and September’s Community Days enabled us once again to solidify it (read the blog article on the 2024 edition). However, Open Food Facts is also part of a multitude of players who make up our food system – namely, professionals from a variety of backgrounds. …

A look back @ Open Food Facts Days 2024

It’s been a few months that we have been excitedly waiting to meet together as a community again !  Although we are hoping to not do our annual weekends only in Paris or France, we were able to secure the same venue – the Académie du Climat, free of charge, thanks to the city of …

Eat GMO-free thanks to the Non-GMO project and its data on Open Food Facts

A genetically modified organism (GMO) is an organism whose DNA has been denatured to give it properties it did not originally possess. Consumers need to know this information, which is why The Butterfly label, from the NON-GMO project, was created. By this initiative, the nonprofit organization agreed to tell us more about their mission, and …

#PortraitSeries: 10 years of contribution by tacite

Who I am, my contribution to Open Food Facts ? I’ve been contributing to Open Food Facts for 10 years under the pseudonym “Tacite”. Otherwise, in my day-to-day life, I’m an administrative secretary in the north of France and I’m 33. I also try to be useful in other projects like OpenStreetMap and Wikipedia. Favourite …

Open Food Facts Days 2024 this September in Paris

Open Food Facts 2024 – a unique opportunity to promote food transparency as a community! THEY ARE BACK ! On this Olympic year for France 🇫🇷, Open Food Facts will celebrate its champions – the members of its community around the world! We hope you can join us for our community weekend on the 21-22 …

Testimonial from an anti-waste manufacturer: when transparency benefits everyone!

At Open Food Facts, we work with all kinds of audiences: consumers, researchers, mobile applications but also food manufacturers. We developed the Pro platform 3 years ago to empower food manufacturers in updating their food data, and to offer them free tools for analysing their product portfolio, and in particular to enable them to identify …

Food Transparency in the Palm of Your Hand: Explore the Largest Open Food Database using DuckDB 🦆X🍊

What if I told you that you could access any information about the food industry at your fingertips? For free? A database containing products from all over the world, completely open access? This database exists and is provided by Open Food Facts, a non-profit organization with the mission to make food consumption transparent. With over 3 …