The reason is that most apps use it, and it's full of inaccurate data. I actually tried to fix this by putting a considerable amount of time into building a smaller but more curated database.
On the other hand, when users add foods, only those with a high internal ranking will have their entries shown publicly. This helps keep the database cleaner.
hey @gbriano, Pierre from Open Food Facts.
This is a topic (defragmentation of recalls worldwide) we're very interested by.
Would you be interested in joining the Open Food Facts/Open Products Facts community ?
https://wiki.openfoodfacts.org/Product_Recalls
Hi Josh:
Pierre, Open Food Facts NGO co-founder.
1. Generic, non-branded foods & 2. Simple prepared foods that ease food entry:
Those two could be solved in a deterministic way, and we'd be happy for a separate Open Food Facts hosted API endpoint (basically a small backend serving a combination of all national generic databases), or improvement to the core software
3. Restaurant foods
- Open Prices (our effort to collect geo-located prices on products) could be an entry point to collect menus, and potentially estimate nutrition for food in restaurants, since we have support for products without barcode.
4. Micronutrients beyond those reported by the brand.
- We have an issue to propose approximation of micro-nutrients from reputable database: https://github.com/openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-server/issues...
Hi, Pierre, Open Food Facts NGO co-founder. We have an issue to propose approximation of micro-nutrients from reputable database. Feel free to join the project and contribute your time/coding skills to help us solve this: https://github.com/openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-server/issues...
Your other comment is too deep in the thread for me to reply, but just wanted to say I appreciate you checking out the project and commenting, and appreciate the many years of effort you've undertaken in this space. How OpenNutrition can work with OpenFoodFacts is something I have thought a lot about (I think MacroFactor set a great example) and it's certainly something I'll consider moving forward.
Hello, Pierre co-founder of the Open Food Facts NGO. We have a multi-year AI effort you can help with. https://wiki.openfoodfacts.org/Artificial_Intelligence
We have weekly community meetings, compute to get things rolling, and a swell/quick from Test to Production and Impact loop :-)
We need a modern opensource barcode reader. The best thing (zxing) is in maintenance mode, and the newer barcode scanners with niceties like neural scan, 90% scan, bortched barcode scan are all closed source.
I agree, I once took a shot at porting ZXing to the Microsoft Hololens. I was amazed that there aren't very many open source barcode interpreters available right now.
This is so true. It blows my mind that nothing exist beyond zxing. Barcodes are everywhere, and quick access to them is the gate-way to a million cool apps, etc.
My code probably would have worked with good image quality, but I wanted something more robust that would work with a cheap webcam. I imagine the pi camera module is about the same.
