Data sources, licenses and attribution

USDA FoodData Central

Generic food data comes from U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, FoodData Central. FoodData Central data is in the public domain under CC0 1.0. Datasets used: Foundation Foods, SR Legacy (2018) and FNDDS (Survey foods).

Open Food Facts

Product data comes from Open Food Facts and its contributors. The Open Food Facts database is made available under the Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0, and the contents of the database under the Database Contents License.

FoodFactly's database of products is a derivative of the Open Food Facts database (we select products, normalize units and add categories, quality scores and links). As the ODbL requires, this derived database is offered under the same license. Download it below.

Product images

Product photos are taken by Open Food Facts contributors and are licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0, separately from the database. They are shown with credit on each product page and are not part of the downloadable database. Some photos may show trademarks or packaging designs that belong to their owners.

Download the derived Open Food Facts database (ODbL)

Format: gzip-compressed CSV, one row per product, values per 100 g in the units stated in the header. License: ODbL 1.0. Attribution: "Contains information from Open Food Facts, which is made available under the ODbL; derived by FoodFactly".

FoodFactly additions

Generated text, categories, quality scores and comparisons are FoodFactly's own work.