Open Food Facts: Global Food Product Database with Ingredients and Nutrition

Open Food Facts is a database of 1.7 million+ food products from 150 countries, contributed by over 25,000 volunteers. It contains information from product labels, including ingredients, allergens, and nutrition facts. The data is maintained by a non-profit association and was last updated on Hugging Face in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze nutritional content and ingredient composition based on label data.
• Train models for food product classification or allergen detection based on listed ingredients.
• Study global food product diversity and labeling practices across 150 countries.
• Build applications for dietary tracking or product comparison based on the structured product database.

Strengths

• Contains over 1.7 million product entries.
• Covers products from 150 different countries.
• Built by a community of over 25,000 contributors.
• Includes multilingual label information as suggested by platform tags.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Freshness should be verified as the last update timestamp is in the future (2026-03-24).

Provenance

Source

Open Food Facts, a non-profit association of volunteers.

Collection Method

Data is gathered by contributors using mobile apps or cameras to scan product labels.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-24 16:01:18; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Global, with products from 150 countries.