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teolemonon Open Food Facts, the wikipedia of food, reaches 100K products in 177 countries

Open Food Facts is a volunteer project, so you can help if you're a coder, a translator, if you have a fridge and a smartphone :-)

https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/open-food-facts/id588797948 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.openfoodfa... http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/openfoodfacts/5d...

http://world.openfoodfacts.org

teolemonon Most olive oils sold in the United States are adulterated or deceptively labeled

Help us document all the olive oils sold worldwide by taking photos of the packaging. It won't solve the whole problem stated by the article, but it's a good start. http://android.openfoodfacts.org or http://ios.openfoodfacts.org

http://world.openfoodfacts.org/category/olive-oils

teolemonon How we're scammed into eating phony food

Yes, there's a login button in the Android app. We also have OCR and autocompletion to help with the typing.

teolemonon How we're scammed into eating phony food

We list labels and claims, and enable calculations like calorie average on a food category, nutritional score calculations, and many other things.

We try to make it easier to read, decypher and compare food info.

Was there a feature you were expecting ?

teolemonon How we're scammed into eating phony food

YES :-) Open Food Facts is an open, collaborative effort to try to make more sense of food and food packagings. A bit like Wikipedia, but for food. Using smartphones, you can scan any food item and get detailed info about what you're about to buy/eat. If it's not yet in the database, you can help by taking a picture

Since we collect all claims and labels, and nutrition info, we can see if your cheese is actually low fat cheese, or just in the average. You can - compare between countries, brands, whatever you like… - easily create comparison charts - much much more

Web: http://world.openfoodfacts.org Android: (http://android.openfoodfacts.org) iPhone: (http://ios.openfoodfacts.org) Windows Phone: (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/apps/openfoodfacts/9nb...)

We're looking for volunteer contributors and developers from all over the world to: - translate it to more languages - add food from your fridge - enhance the apps and web version

teolemonon How we're scammed into eating phony food

We're trying to end this.

Open Food Facts is an open, collaborative effort to try to make more sense of food and food packagings. A bit like Wikipedia, but for food. Using smartphones, you can scan any food item and get detailed and structured data about what you're about to buy/eat.

If the item is not yet in the database, you can help by taking a picture, so that next time there will be detailed facts.

You can peruse it at http://world.openfoodfacts.org

We have Apps for Android (http://android.openfoodfacts.org) iPhone (http://ios.openfoodfacts.org) Windows Phone (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/apps/openfoodfacts/9nb...)

It's Open Data, so feel free to use the API in your apps and let your users contribute to end this (OdBL licence)

Also, we're looking for volunteer contributors and developers from all over the world to: - translate it to more languages - add food from your fridge - enhance the apps and web version

teolemonon Introducing Soylent 1.6 Powder

Can someone with access to the pack take pictures using the Open Food Facts app ? http://android.openfoodfacts.org or http://ios.openfoodfacts.org

teolemonon Show HN: YC interview practice app

Can Sam provide proper voice talent ? :-)

teolemonon Kraft Reveals Revamped Mac and Cheese, 50M Boxes Later

http://world.openfoodfacts.org/cgi/search.pl?action=process&...

We have them :-) We also store every single revision of the product, but we don't display the changes yet.

Join us on http://slack.openfoodfacts.org to see how we can just do that.

teolemonon Ask HN: Would you be interested in Job Application Organizer?

have a look at https://www.jobmindapp.com/landing/new/

teolemonon Open Food Facts – A free food products database

http://world.openfoodfacts.org/data and http://en.wiki.openfoodfacts.org/Project:API

contact@openfoodfacts.org if you have any questions

teolemonon Open Food Facts – A free food products database

yes it is. you have a read API being built at http://world.openfoodfacts.org/data and a basic write one at http://en.wiki.openfoodfacts.org/Project:API If you'd like to help improve it, send a mail to pierre at openfoodfacts dot org so that i can invite you to our Slack.

teolemonon Open Food Facts – A free food products database

We have a system of labels (for halal, kosher, vegetarian/vegan) which you can see at: http://en.wiki.openfoodfacts.org/Global_labels_taxonomy We're also looking at religious certification authorities. We need help to improve on both.

teolemonon Open Food Facts – A free food products database

Yes: so far we have a revision history for each product, and a revert system, we use the photos to ensure accuracy of data and we rely on the Barcode to limit duplication. If you're interested in helping on quality, please send me your email to pierre at openfoodfacts dot org so that I can invite you to our Slack.

teolemonon Open Food Facts – A free food products database

Yes, we have a tagged dataset, and image recognition would just be awesome. Can you send a mail to pierre@openfoodfacts.org so that I can invite you to the OpenFoodFacts slack, so that we can discuss it further ?

teolemonon Open Food Facts – A free food products database

Can you send a mail to pierre@openfoodfacts.org so that I can invite you to the OpenFoodFacts slack. Barcodes are indeed a tedious issue.

teolemonon Open Food Facts – A free food products database

no need to :-) http://world.openfoodfacts.org/data

teolemonon Open Food Facts – A free food products database

Open Food Facts is free as in speech as well as free as in Beer (The Open Food Facts database is available under the Open Database License. The individual contents of the database are available under the Database Contents License. Products images are available under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike licence).

But you're right, we still haven't got a Free as in Beer, Beers category :-P

teolemonon Open Food Facts – A free food products database

It's a bug, thanks for spotting it. I'd be very interested to see what kind of food products were available in East Germany though!

teolemonon Open Food Facts – A free food products database

For now, you have a write API being built at http://world.openfoodfacts.org/data and http://en.wiki.openfoodfacts.org/Project:API If you'd like to use the API to contribute or help improve it, send a mail to contact at openfoodfacts dot org.

teolemonon Open Food Facts – A free food products database

You have all the labels available at http://world.openfoodfacts.org/labels but you still should of course exercise caution and read the packaging.

http://world.openfoodfacts.org/label/vegan http://world.openfoodfacts.org/label/vegetarian

Power tip: you can actually look for several criterias: eg: http://world.openfoodfacts.org/label/vegetarian/label/organi... or http://world.openfoodfacts.org/label/vegetarian/category/puf...

teolemonon Open Food Facts – A free food products database

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.

teolemonon Open Food Facts – A free food products database

Price would be quite difficult to track, but I guess an app using Open Food Facts data could do it using crowdsourcing :-)

teolemonon Open Food Facts – A free food products database

The API is there. As for the incomplete products, you can drill them down by status if you want to help complete them. You can pick and choose from http://world.openfoodfacts.org/states

For instance, here are the US products with photos selected, but still in need of nutrition info: http://us.openfoodfacts.org/state/photos-validated/state/nut...

teolemonon Open Food Facts – A free food products database

Yes, it's downloadable here as RDF and CSV, as a JSON API (read and write if you want to contribute): http://world.openfoodfacts.org/data

There are also mobile apps for iOS, Android and Windows Phone to contribute to the base on the go, or check a product.