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Collaborative food product database providing nutrition facts, ingredients, allergens, and Nutri-Score ratings for products worldwide via barcode lookup. Best for nutrition analysis, dietary tracking, and food product comparison workflows. The open-source equivalent of proprietary nutrition databases — covers packaged food globally with community-verified data. 2 endpoints available through Lava’s AI Gateway. See the Open Food Facts API docs for full documentation.
This provider is managed — no additional setup required.

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Endpoints

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Look up product by barcode

GET https://world.openfoodfacts.org/api/v2/product/737628064502 — Free 
const data = await lava.gateway('https://world.openfoodfacts.org/api/v2/product/737628064502', { method: 'GET' });

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Search for food products

GET https://world.openfoodfacts.org/api/v2/search?categories_tags=breakfast-cereals&fields=product_name,nutriscore_grade — Free 
const data = await lava.gateway('https://world.openfoodfacts.org/api/v2/search?categories_tags=breakfast-cereals&fields=product_name,nutriscore_grade', { method: 'GET' });

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