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Open Food Facts

Better food choices for your health & the planet

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Participation history

4 GSoC years

2026

3 projects

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Canadian OLAP Integrated Database

The Open Food Facts (OFF) Canada database contains information about branded food products, including their ingredients and nutritional values. This...

Reference Database: A Ground-Truth Food Data Platform for Canada

The Reference Database project aims to build a high-quality, reliable food data platform to complement and enhance Open Food Facts (OFF) in Canada....

Open Food Facts Explorer - a new generation Frontend

Open Food Facts Explorer is a next-generation frontend for exploring and contributing to the Open Food Facts ecosystem, built with modern...

2025

4 projects

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Implementation of a new structured nutrition schema

Open Food Facts maintains a database of food products all around the world. One important data of the products is their nutritional information....

Enhancing Developer Experience Through Automation and Workflow Optimization

Open Food Facts (OFF) relies on contributions from a global community of developers and volunteers. However, setting up development environments,...

Folksonomy Engine: a one size fit all for any product data

The Folksonomy Engine does not support intuitive property suggestions and reusable web components. In order to enhance usability and scalability, the...

Open Food Facts Explorer - A New Generation Frontend

This Google Summer of Code (GSoC) project aims to enhance the Open Food Facts Explorer by implementing new features, ensuring design consistency,...

2022

4 projects

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Implement an offline mode for the new Open Food Facts Flutter application

1. Understanding the Flow and Discussion: Make a clear understanding of the flow of data between the mobile and the server, Including how the app...

Setup an External Authentication Service

This project sets up an authentication micro-service for the open source organization OpenFoodFacts. The project entails migrating all users to the...

Facets knowledge panels

This project aims at building an Api based on knowledge panel of Open Food Facts that return client a specific knowledge panel with use of one or two...

Build a Taxonomy Editor

The Open Food Facts database contains a lot of information on food products, such as ingredients, labels, additives etc. To link this information to...

2018

2 projects

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OCR on Nutritional Facts Table

Open Food Facts currently have a huge dataset that is not being utilized for anything except for showing the raw data to the users. Despite the...

Add Continuous Scan and Thorough Product Addition using OCR in Native Android Application

This project aims to introduce a continuous scan feature in the Open Food Facts native android application. This will make the process of scanning...