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Open Food Facts

open wiki to catalog food, nutrition facts and ingredients
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Summary

Open Food Facts is a wiki[1]. It draws 530 Wikipedia views per month (wiki category, ranking #5 of 16).[2]

Key Facts

  • Award received: Dataconnexions award[3]
  • Country: France[4]
  • Instance of: database[5], crowdsourcing[6], web application[7], digital public good[8]
  • Founder: Stéphane Gigandet[9]
  • Publisher: Open Food Facts (association)[10]
  • Genre: open wiki[11]
  • Operator: Open Food Facts (association)[12]
  • Headquarters location: Saint-Maur-des-Fossés[13]
  • Copyright license: Open Database License[14], Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported[15], Q96393884[16]
  • Programmed in: Perl[17], Swift (programming language)[18], Java[19], Python[20]
  • Commons category: Open Food Facts[21]
  • Language of work or name: French[22], Danish[23], Dutch[24], Finnish[25], German[26], Hebrew[27], Italian[28], Korean[29], Portuguese[30], Spanish[31], Turkish[32], English[33], Polish[34], Bokmål[35]
  • Inception: May 19, 2012[36]
  • Official website: https://www.openfoodfacts.org[37], https://fr.openfoodfacts.org[38], https://de.openfoodfacts.org[39], https://world.openfoodfacts.org/[40], https://es.openfoodfacts.org/[41], https://pl.openfoodfacts.org/[42]
  • Main subject: food[43], nutrition facts label[44], recycling code[45], food labeling regulations[46]
  • Described at URL: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/openfoodfacts/world-food-facts[47]
  • Source code repository URL: https://github.com/openfoodfacts/[48]
  • Participant in: Google Summer of Code 2018[49]
  • Used by: Waistline[50]
  • Official blog URL: https://en.blog.openfoodfacts.org/[51], https://fr.blog.openfoodfacts.org/[52], https://blog.openfoodfacts.org/en/[53]
  • Main Wikidata property: P1821[54], P1820[55], P5930[56], P7927[57]
  • Short name: OFF[58]
  • Different from: Open Food Facts (association)[59], Open Food Facts (app)[60]
  • Name: Open Food Facts[61]
  • Hashtag: openfoodfacts[62]

Why It Matters

Open Food Facts has Wikipedia articles in 11 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[63] It is known by 20 alternative names across languages and contexts.[64]

FAQs

What awards did Open Food Facts receive?

Honors received include Dataconnexions award[3].

Related Entities

Benoît Prieur France Java Python Saint-Maur-des-Fossés Stéphane Gigandet Waistline web application

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  34. [36] ↑ . digitalpublicgoods.net. Retrieved . digitalpublicgoods.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  51. [53] ↑ . blog.openfoodfacts.org. Retrieved . blog.openfoodfacts.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [63] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [64] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 3d ago · Back ache · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 15
    Wikipedia languages → ['commons', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'it', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'r
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    Official wiki url → https://wiki.openfoodfacts.org, https://wiki.openfoodfacts.org/Main_Page
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  3. 11w ago · Sumurai8 · 2026-07-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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  4. 16w ago · Pharos · 2026-06-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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