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We need more open data on birthday cakes! Food Fact: the more birthday cakes you eat, the longer you live!

Also no ingredients it seems. :-(

I need to look again but I believe it contains mostly "average" generic products, not branded products. And no images of the product and its packaging unfortunately. Also there are…

The US is #6 in terms of number of products on Open Food Facts. Can you help me get the US to #5? Only a couple of dozens of products is needed.

True. But there are only a few different types of gas, and in the US alone, there are 50000 new food products introduced on supermarket shelves every year: http://www.ers.usda.gov/…

It's definitely possible. There's a game that uses the Open Food Facts data and asks you to guess how much sugar there is in a product (the whole package). It also uses the same ph…

Open Food Facts uses UPCs to identify products, it's the primary key of the database, and it's available on each product page. Food data needs to be public, free and open, it's way…

We are trying to build a taxonomy of ingredients so that we can automatically analyze the ingredients list and find out if it's suitable for vegans, vegetarians, people who cannot …

Indeed it will be very interesting to see how products evolve over time. Open Food Facts also has a "Food Archeology" project. The idea is to find old products and put them in the …