A staunch supporter, technical trailblazer, and global ambassador of Nutri-Score since the very beginning. Here is the full story of our decade-long journey promoting nutritional transparency for all.
A simple, science-backed way to compare food quality in grocery stores at a single glance, without barriers.
When the "5-color nutrition system" was first proposed in a 2014 French scientific report, Open Food Facts asked Prof. Serge Hercberg for the formula. We immediately computed the grades across all 10,000 French products in our database overnight, demonstrating that automated, objective front-of-pack scoring was achievable at scale without waiting years.
Open Food Facts worked closely with the public epidemiological research team EREN (Inserm / INRAE / CNAM / Université Sorbonne Paris Nord) led by Prof. Serge Hercberg and Dr. Chantal Julia. We shared field data, validated score calculations against scientific criteria, and supported academic studies on dietary quality and public health.
In an ideal world, consumers should not need a mobile app to understand their food; clear nutrition ratings should be printed right on front packaging. Open Food Facts actively backed the European Citizens' Initiative (#ProNutriScore) alongside consumer unions across 7 EU nations to advocate for mandatory front-of-pack labeling.
Building open-source algorithms, AI vision networks, and producer tools to break down adoption barriers.
The Open Food Facts app for iPhone and Android was the very first mobile app to compute and display the Nutri-Score on barcode scans. Since 2014, it has empowered over 15 million citizens to decode supermarket shelves and compare nutritional quality in real time.
Our neural networks (RoboFlow & custom vision models) automatically scan millions of crowdsourced product photos, detecting Nutri-Score badges whether they appear in color, grayscale, tilted, or partially shaded, while extracting the exact letter rating to verify pack consistency.
The Open Food Facts Pro Platform allows manufacturers and food brands to upload product catalogs, compute the official Nutri-Score, simulate recipe reformulations, and receive tailored suggestions to improve nutritional quality before hitting store shelves.
Providing open data and robust APIs to empower consumers, researchers, startups, and public institutions.
Daily database exports under the Open Database License (ODbL) provide researchers, epidemiological teams, and policymakers with the world's most comprehensive independent nutrition dataset to study food reformulation trends and public health outcomes.
Over 200 startups, health organizations, smart refrigerators, and diet applications query our free APIs to calculate and display Nutri-Score, multiplying the reach of transparent nutrition data to tens of millions of people worldwide.
When the European scientific steering committee upgraded the Nutri-Score algorithm (tightening rules for sweeteners, sugar-sweetened drinks, red meats, and whole grains), Open Food Facts was first to deploy the updated calculation across the catalog, providing migration guides for 200+ ecosystem developers.
Creating educational materials, empowering healthcare professionals, and fostering informed public debate.
Through our volunteer localization community, we have translated our Nutri-Score educational guides and FAQs into dozens of languages, ensuring that citizens worldwide can decipher nutritional information without linguistic barriers.
We design educational posters, patient infographics, and consultation reference guides used by doctors, dietitians, and nutrition educators in hospitals and private practices to foster constructive, judgment-free dietary conversations.
Open Food Facts acts as an independent, non-partisan source of truth for investigative journalists, television documentaries, and national newspapers examining food formulation trends, corporate adoption rates, and front-of-pack policy debates.
Leveraging our crowd-powered database to track industry adoption curves across brands and aisles.
Every day, contributors upload thousands of photos of new and updated product packages. Our automated pipelines immediately detect newly printed Nutri-Score logos, indexing packaging updates and providing a live pulse of brand compliance.
Dive straight into granular facets to discover which market segments and food producers lead the charge on front-of-pack disclosure, and where gaps remain.
Leveraging our international volunteer community to bring science-based nutrition transparency to all continents.
While official governmental adoption is centered in Europe (France, Germany, Belgium, Spain, Switzerland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands), Open Food Facts can compute Nutri-Score in over 100 countries, including more than 300,000 products in the United States and growing coverage across Latin America and Asia.
Access our dedicated Nutri-Score explanation hubs in your local language to learn how the score is calculated, what positive and negative factors are considered, and how to read the grades.
Open Food Facts community members actively contribute to and maintain Wikipedia entries on Nutri-Score across diverse languages, documenting scientific studies, institutional milestones, and public debates.