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Open Food Facts

Open Food Facts is a crowdsourced database of packaged food products. Following the model of Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap, contributors use smartphones to scan barcodes and photograph ingredient lists and nutrition tables, building up a detailed record for each product.

Database dumps and exports are generated nightly, with different export flavours depending on your needs, and a JSON API is available for looking up individual products. The data now covers millions of products across more than 140 countries.

The database is under the Open Database Licence (ODbL), which lets you reuse it commercially as long as you share any derivative database under the same terms and credit the source. Individual contents use the Database Contents Licence, and product images are under CC BY-SA, so the licence differs across the parts of the dataset.

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