Is there price information as well?
Open Food Facts – A free food products database
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#12This is a fantastic idea.
My only worry is that the owners will be legally hounded from every corner of the world due to the fact that most large food corporations don't really want you to know what's in their products.
Like the fact that "orange juice" is basically rancid orange sugar water left sitting in large vats for up to a year that is doused with orange oil before sale, apparently. [0]
I would get some legal cousel were I persuing this venture.
[0] http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/orange-juice-is-premium-juic...
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#13Is there price information as well?
Price would be quite difficult to track, but I guess an app using Open Food Facts data could do it using crowdsourcing :-)
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#14I love this idea. I have wanted to build something similar for a long time.
One of the key features I believe would be to track ingredient changes over time, per product.
I put a great amount of effort into purchasing products without specific ingredients for the allergy concerns of my family. One of those is High Fructose Corn Syrup. I had finally found a brand of BBQ sauce that was HFCS free, and used it for quite a long time. One day I became curious if the ingredients had changed, and sure enough, the company had started using HFCS at home point.
Tracking these sorts of changes of course requires a great amount of crowd-sourcing effort, but I believe that it's worth so much more than the effort put in. In my case, it was just HFCS, and not much of a problem. But had it been one of the allergens that we have to avoid, that would have caused a much bigger problem.
Great work, keep it up! I look forward to contributing.
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#16I love this idea. I have wanted to build something similar for a long time. One of the key features I believe would be to track ingredient changes over time, per product. I put a great amount of effort into purchasing products without specific ingredients for the allergy concerns of my family. One of those is High Fructose Corn Syrup. I had finally found a brand of BBQ sauce that was HFCS free, and used it for quite…
We're actually looking for both technical and non technical contributors, on a wide range of topics.
We have a Wiki (http://en.wiki.openfoodfacts.org) Slack (http://openfoodfacts.slack.com) and the source code is available on GitHub.
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#17I love this idea. I have wanted to build something similar for a long time. One of the key features I believe would be to track ingredient changes over time, per product. I put a great amount of effort into purchasing products without specific ingredients for the allergy concerns of my family. One of those is High Fructose Corn Syrup. I had finally found a brand of BBQ sauce that was HFCS free, and used it for quite…
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 database as well. Anyone knows soda cans collectors? :-)
Something very interesting as well is to compare products accross different countries, first to identify differences, and second to see if there is a correlation between those differences and differences in the prevalence of some affections like diabetes or obesity.
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#18Is there a way to use this database to determine if a food product is suitable for vegetarians or vegans?
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#19I love this idea. I have wanted to build something similar for a long time. One of the key features I believe would be to track ingredient changes over time, per product. I put a great amount of effort into purchasing products without specific ingredients for the allergy concerns of my family. One of those is High Fructose Corn Syrup. I had finally found a brand of BBQ sauce that was HFCS free, and used it for quite…
I second the idea of tracking ingredients. It would be good if price could also be tracked.
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#20This is fantastic. One "future vision" if I may -- actually tracking, sharing, recommending, etc. nutrition research. I think one of the most painful things for everyone interested in nutrition is actually knowing what the research says about what they need to eat, when, how, etc. "Future vision squared" would be to personalize nutrition recommendations / advice to each person, but I'm dreaming.
for nutrition research I think http://examine.com is a pretty good resource