Become an Open Food Facts patron
Every month, we serve 8 million visitors, and many times that through the API. Your support is essential to:
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keep Open Food Facts open & available to all,
- support infrastructure, the website, mobile app and API with a small permanent team
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remain independent of the food industry,
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support the community
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support science
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Faigh stuth airson sgeulachdan inntinneach mu fhollaiseachd bìdh, an ar-a-mach sganaidh a tha sinn a’ lasadh agus cho cudromach sa tha e raointean cumanta fosgailte a chruthachadh gus deasbad mu bhiadh fallain a bhrosnachadh agus a chumail suas.
Mòran taing airson an ùidh a th’ agad anns a’ phròiseact! Agus taing mhòr dha na luchd-aithris a bhios ag innse dha na leughadairean aca mu Open Food Facts.
Key Facts about Open Food Facts
Tha sinn gu daingeann den bheachd gu bheil eòlas air na bhios sinn ag ithe ann an ùidh a’ phobaill agus gum bu chòir a bhith ruigsinneach do dhuine sam bith gu saor. Chaidh Open Food Facts a stèidheachadh ann an 2012, agus ’s e buidheann neo-phrothaideach a th’ ann a tha air cùl an stòr-dàta fosgailte as motha san t-saoghal mu thoraidhean bìdh.
Mar stòr-dàta fiosrachaidh, tha sinn glè thoilichte gun do chuidich sinn le bhith a’ cruthachadh còrr is 200 pròiseact, aplacaid agus làrach-lìn ann an roinn a’ bhidhe. Le bhith ag ath-chleachdadh an stòr-dàta againn, bidh na pròiseactan seo ga dhèanamh ruigsinneach do barrachd is barrachd dhaoine air feadh an t-saoghail, agus mar sin a’ cur ri follaiseachd nas motha a thaobh bìdh.
Open Food Facts is a food information database unique in the world:
- collaborative : comparable to Wikipedia, it has 60,000 contributors
- eadar-nàiseanta agus gun chrìoch air meud agus toraidhean: rugadh san Fhraing, tha timcheall air 4,000,000 toradh ann a-nis ann an còrr air 180 dùthaich - Tha còrr air 10,000 toradh ann an 30+ dùthaich, 8 barrachd air 100,000
- freely reusable (open data): dozens of companies, researchers, innovators freely reuse the data for their own use
- strictly independent of agribusiness, it is run by an association under French law, law of 1901.
With 3.000,000 users/month, Open Food Facts has already become, in 11 years only, the reference for food information in several countries. It supports research and public policies aimed at a healthier diet.
The 5 major success stories of Open Food Facts?
Creating the first freely reusable global database on food products
More than 3,000,000 products identified by more than 16,000 contributors. The Open Food Facts data is also published on the official French open data portal, data.gouv.fr.
Informing the general public and professionals
The consumer app is installed on more than 750,000 phones or tablets. The site and the application are used by 100,000 users / day and 6 million users per year.
Promoting nutritional quality indicators
For 3 years, Open Food Facts has been supporting the roll out of Nutri-Score in 5 European countries. In France, Open Food Facts has been displaying the Nutri-Score since 2015, before its officialization. In Spain and Belgium, Open Food Facts also precedes the adoption of Nutri-Score by these countries. Open Food Facts also helped bring ultra-processing in the limelight by computing the NOVA classification, and made ecological labelling a reality by computing the Eco-Score at scale.
Creating and maintaining an ecosystem of uses and research
Since its creation, Open Food Facts has developed a real ecosystem of reuse of its data. Since the Open Food Facts data is freely reusable, several information sites, start-ups, research laboratories, teachers, etc., have started their activity and / or use the Open Food Facts data daily: Yuka, Foodvisor, Scaneat, Ya Quoi Dedans (What’s inside) (Super U), Buy Or Not, nopalm.org, My Nutritional Info…
Change the practices of manufacturers
For 2 years, Open Food Facts has helped to change the practices of the food industry; they know and rely on Open Food Facts to compare and improve their products. Many companies spontaneously communicate the data of their products on the platform: Fleury Michon, Super U, Carrefour, Casino, etc.
Who uses the Open Food Facts data?
It would be too long to name all the organizations that build on the Open Food Facts platform.
- More than 300 applications for mobile phones that meet the needs of various audiences: diabetes (VeryDiab), allergies, food balance via artificial intelligence (FoodVisor), disabilities, and more. Our base also allowed the creation of Yuka.
- Many websites: HowMuchSugar.in, MadeNear.me…
- Data-journalists: Le Monde's Decoders, BFMTV
- Researchers in nearly 100 scientific articles
- Food banks and solidarity stores: Data For Good project in the continuity of a pilot project initiated by the French Red Cross, integration into the cash management of a small food cooperative.
- Established companies: Terraillon to bring its connected kitchen scales to life.
- Programming schools (Simplon, Open Classrooms) have integrated Open Food Facts as a motivating project in their curriculum.
Open Food Facts in numbers
Those numbers might help convey the large, direct and indirect, impact of Open Food Facts
products, contributed by volunteers and producers alike
Number of languages in which Open Food Facts is available.
Number of people directly using our website, our mobile (Android and iPhone) app to scan barcodes, get informed and contribute pictures of products.
apps and services enabled by Open Food Facts
number of scientific papers based or citing Open Food Facts
Active contributors that ensure the quality of the Open Food Facts database
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Open Food Facts media mentions
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