[HN Gopher] Open Food Facts - a food products database made by e... ___________________________________________________________________ Open Food Facts - a food products database made by everyone, for everyone Author : jka Score : 76 points Date : 2022-06-27 17:59 UTC (5 hours ago) (HTM) web link (world.openfoodfacts.org) (TXT) w3m dump (world.openfoodfacts.org) | funnym0nk3y wrote: | First thing I noticed: There seem to be multiple entries for one | product. One would expect that Coca-Cola is the same everywhere, | but it has at least two entries for same can. Also Nutella, two | entries for the same thing but in different sizes. | deepvibrations wrote: | Wow, this is brilliant! Will start adding some products. | pkaye wrote: | Also in the US the USDA maintains a pretty big food database of | nutrition information. | | https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/ | umangsh wrote: | OpenFoodFacts offers variety of options to consume their data: | https://world.openfoodfacts.org/data. From my experience, they | provide metadata for a variety of packaged foods from various | countries. | | In US, USDA provides a more curated dataset through FoodData | Central (https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/) - smaller dataset but higher | quality in many cases. | moasda wrote: | There is also an app available on F-Droid, see link below. I | frequently use it to scan the food on my table and I am surprised | sometimes about the good or bad food quality. | | https://f-droid.org/packages/openfoodfacts.github.scrachx.op... | jka wrote: | For anyone wondering about that app package name: | | > The package name on the Play Store is | org.openfoodfacts.scanner. For historic reasons, it's | openfoodfacts.github.scrachx.openfood in the code and on | F-Droid. | | (quoting from the app project's readme at | https://github.com/openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-androidapp/) | nonrandomstring wrote: | A very useful database. But maybe not quite what I'm looking for. | | Where would one find a simpler search facility that deals with | raw ingredients rather than packaged products? | | Where can I ask: "potatoes boiled" and get a rundown on | nutrients, calories, etcetera? | adamdusty wrote: | Nutritionix is your best bet, in my opinion. | | https://www.nutritionix.com/food/boiled-potatoes | umangsh wrote: | https://www.famnom.com/search/?q=boiled+potatoes. | | Famnom is a nutrition tracking and meal planning service I | built, after trying a few others that didn't fit my needs. The | goal is to highlight macro and micro nutrient data for raw and | unprocessed foods. Data is sourced from USDA. | frozencell wrote: | I'll only drink pure water now. | throw10920 wrote: | https://world.openfoodfacts.org/product/3017620422003/nutell... | | The "Nutrient levels for 100 g" section seems a little whacky. | | Red circle: 30.9 g Fat in high quantity | | Red circle: 10.6 g Saturated fat in high quantity | | There's nothing intrinsically wrong with consuming fat, | _especially_ saturated fats - they 're completely different from | carbohydrates and sugars, which you _don 't_ want to be consuming | large quantities of. | | Aside from the whacky _qualitative_ assessment of nutritional | value, the _quantitative_ information seems to be _very_ useful. | Imagine being able to query their API and filter out foods with | vegetable oils or high-fructose corn syrup... | pure_simplicity wrote: | The funny thing is, carbs get blamed for the problems caused by | saturated fat (lsuch as impaired insulin sensitivity, just see | how bad the insulin sensitivity of those doing keto gets which | should be impossible if carbs were to blame). Of course not all | carbs are created equal, but if you stick with whole foods, you | cannot go wrong. | n8cpdx wrote: | While I personally agree with you, this sort of thing is closer | to a political position than a fact. There's plenty of people | who will push a low fat, plant and carb-based diet as evidence- | based even today. | bryans wrote: | Except there are well-researched and medically-accepted facts | about fats. So, while somebody may decide to push a diet | which contradicts those facts, it doesn't turn the facts into | political positions. It does, however, mean that the person | pushing the contradictory diet is pushing a political agenda. | And in fact, the primary (and only) instigators of anti-fat | ideology were the sugar industry[1] and some political bad | actors, which turned out to be lobby-funded medical quackery | directly resulting in disease and death for tens of millions | of people. | | Facts matter. Let's not mislabel or dismiss them just because | they're not convenient for everyone. | | [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/well/eat/how-the- | sugar-in... ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-06-27 23:00 UTC)