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teolemonon Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's

We're tracking prices and packaging for food since 2012 at Open Food Facts, and we have a food archeology project: https://wiki.openfoodfacts.org/Project:Archeology https://world.openfoodfacts.org/open-food-facts-mobile-app

Feel free to add what you have in your attic ;-)

teolemonon Pizza, pasta, potatoes, protein – how Italian children became so overweight

And meanwhile, the Italian food lobbies are blocking Nutri-Score adoption at the EU level

teolemonon Show HN: PogiFit – Nutrition and Workout Tracker

I was wondering: have you spotted Open Food Facts as a database (with 4 million products). If so, any reason you chose not to use it @pobbypablo ?

teolemonon Show HN: Recall Watch – Real-time USDA and FDA recall alerts

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

teolemonon Show HN: OpenNutrition – A free, public nutrition database

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...

We're happy to cover more use-cases, so feel free to join the project and contribute your time/coding skills to help us solve those issues. https://slack.openfoodfacts.org or https://forum.openfoodfacts.org or directly https://github.com/openfoodfacts

teolemonon Show HN: OpenNutrition – A free, public nutrition database

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...

teolemonon FoodAnalyze: Instant Food Label Analysis – Free for 24 Hours

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 :-)

teolemonon Disney seeks dismissal of wrongful death lawsuit citing waiver in Disney+ terms

It does not seem to bother Dumbo: https://youtu.be/vIlb4-NqlG4?t=11

teolemonon AI Nutrition Fact Labels

If you like Nutrition facts labels and Artificial Intelligence, Open Food Facts has a nice AI effort at https://github.com/openfoodfacts/robotoff and https://hunger.openfoodfacts.org/ We do weekly Community Calls if you're interested.

teolemonon Improving the Trust-On-First-Use authentication scheme with transparency

https://world.openfoodfacts.org/category/tofu

teolemonon Libre Barcode Project

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.

teolemonon Germany officially rolls out the Nutriscore food labelling system

Open Food Facts computes Nutri-Score worldwide. You can get the app @ https://www.openfoodfacts.app (and as it's opensource and opendata, you can help :-) https://world.openfoodfacts.org/development

teolemonon Going FLOSS-only on Android

For all nutrition/food scanning purposes: Open Food Facts. Source code and data free as in speech. Think Wikipedia for food (and cosmetics)

teolemonon Notice of Data Breach

Feel free to ping me at pierre openfoodfacts.org We have a online discussion chat, if you want to integrate OFF at some point, and have questions about the OdBL

teolemonon Notice of Data Breach

No, no worries about personal consumption. What the OdBL requires you to do is to add missing products. Not add data outside the scope of the original database. (I'm a Open Food Facts admin)

Also please don't scrape us, since we release nightly dumps of the DB :)

teolemonon Ask HN: How to eat and drink properly?

Open Food Facts ranks all products from A to E, using the French Nutriscore. It helps you compare products within a category, and get a general sense of how bad the product is, nutrition wise.

You're in luck, we've just imported 175K Open Data products from the USDA, so it now works in the US :-)

Also it's collaborative, so please take pictures as you scan products :)

https://android.openfoodfacts.org https://ios.openfoodfacts.org

teolemonon Offer HN: I'll build a free app for a non profit

You might have a look at Open Food Facts (https://world.openfoodfacts.org and https://world.openfoodfacts.org/discover https://world.openfoodfacts.org/contribute ). Crowdsourced Wikipedia for food. We already have apps (Cordova) and we're doing efforts to redevelop in native on each platform (all is volunteer word).

We've long wanted to create a small game/gamification app to have people make more complex contributions than taking pictures.

pierre at openfoodfacts dot org

teolemonon Ask HN: What tasks do you automate?

@gottlos : Would be curious to see your code/a demo of the stuff you built using Open Food Facts :-)

teolemonon Introducing OpenPetFoodFacts, the Wikipedia for Pet Food (for iOS,Android and Web)

The android app is now live: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.openpetfoo...

As is the website: https://world.openpetfoodfacts.org

lthough Open Food Facts went from 100k to 300k products in just a few months, indexing all the food in the world proves to be a sizeable challenge: there are still millions of products not yet indexed all over the world.

As a result, we decided to focus on a task easier to achieve: Pet Food. And while we love all pets equally, in order to make our objective reachable, we have to focus only on one kind of pet: dogs, or cats or birds, etc.

But the good news is that you get to decide which pet that is, by participating in our worldwide competition:

1 New Pet Food uploaded to Open Pet Food Facts = 1 Vote for the Pet Food type of your choice

teolemonon Recycle robot – using raspberry pi and tensorflow

If the maker is around: Open Food Facts has an insanely large db with recycling info, barcodes as opendata.

pierre at openfoodfacts dot org

teolemonon Finding Free Food with Python

(Equivalent library for Vegetarian people) Free food with Python: http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdjfls2B5x1r0uk07o1_1280.p...

teolemonon Ask HN: Why aren't there middle class cars shaped like Ferraris?

So where does the Tesla Model 3 fit in ? https://www.tesla.com/model3

teolemonon Big Sugar’s Secret Ally? Nutritionists

I was being obtuse ;-) It is actually a play on words so that you can have nice urls like http://howmuchsugar.in/broccoli-cauliflower-florets-asda

More seriously, Open Food Facts is a mobile crowdsourcing effort, and we have volunteers from all the planet :-)

teolemonon Big Sugar’s Secret Ally? Nutritionists

we have an Indian version and we need more contributions :-) https://in.openfoodfacts.org

And we're translating it to Hindi :)

teolemonon Big Sugar’s Secret Ally? Nutritionists

Open Food Facts is trying to create massive amounts of open data on all products sold. It's only a part of the puzzle, but we've already seen journalists and nutritionists leverage data to do better science or reporting.

teolemonon Big Sugar’s Secret Ally? Nutritionists

Give this game a try :-) http://howmuchsugar.in

Also if you want to increase transparency for nutrition, consider contributing to Open Food Facts (we need Perl, Android, iOS volunteers and barcode scanners to help) https://world.openfoodfacts.org https://github.com/openfoodfacts

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http://howmuchsugar.in

Nice little sugar game for children based on Open Food Facts (http://world.openfoodfacts.org, http://android.openfoodfacts.org and http://ios.openfoodfacts.org )

teolemonon Openfood – Open access info about barcoded food products sold in Switzerland

+1 We have http://android.openfoodfacts.org http://ios.openfoodfacts.org to check products (and more importantly liberate products :-)

Also, we're looking for all the help we can get: barcode scanners, designers, programmers, translators, communicators, you name it

Come scan with us ;-)

Pierre

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

We also have a GitHub with the source code for the Android, iPhone apps… at: https://github.com/openfoodfacts/

A data page: http://world.openfoodfacts.org/data An API doc at : http://en.wiki.openfoodfacts.org/API

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