Help us inform millions of consumers around the world about what they eat

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Please give to our 2025 Fundraiser

Your donations fund the day-to-day operations of our non-profit association:

  • keeping our database open & available to all,
    • technical infrastructure (website/mobile app) & a small permanent team

  • remain independent of the food industry,

  • engage a community of committed citizens,

  • support the advancement of public health research.

Each donation counts! We appreciate your support in bringing further food transparency in the world.

Contribute to Open Food Facts

Open Food Facts community

Open Food Facts exists thanks to the citizens who give their time and talent in many different activities. We are a large international family that gives a unique character to this beautiful project, made for all, by all! 🌍✨

To facilitate the involvement of our contributors and allow the project to grow in a more dynamic way, we are setting up a Contributors Skill Pool, as well as teams of volunteers by theme.

✅ The aim is to match your skills and interests to the needs of the project.

Whether you are already a very involved contributor or have just arrived and want to participate, we invite you to fill in the form below. (All personal data you enter will be kept confidential and used only by the permanent team to contact you).

Contributors Skill Pool form in ENG/FR

Everyone can contribute

Be part of our collaborative, free and open source database of food products from around the world!

Open Food Facts is a non-profit project made entirely by volunteers, we do need you.

Add products

Use our Android, iPhone or Windows app to easily scan the barcode of products from your home or local stores and upload pictures of their label.

No smartphone? No problem: you can also use your camera to add products directly on the web site.

Install the app to contribute to food, cosmetic, pet food and product transparency

Complete products

We need to categorize products and extract ingredients lists and nutrition facts to analyze their nutritional quality, determine if they are suitable for vegans and vegetatarians and much more!

You can help us complete products by selecting and cropping photos and filling in information.

Tell the world

Do you like Open Food Facts? Tell others about it!

You can present the project to your family and friends, show them how to install the app and contribute, write a blog post, and share Open Food Facts on social media.

Make it local

You can help us translate the website and mobile app in your language as well as the documents, announcements etc.

Start or join a local contributors community: add local products, recruit friends, present the project in local meetups and conferences etc.

Help translate Open Food Facts

Expert help needed

Developing Open Food Facts also requires specialized knowledge and expertise in many different areas:

  • Project management

    We have tons of ideas and you probably have even more, but it is quite a challenge to prioritize them, to build a roadmap, and to manage projects when every participant is a volunteer with often limited time available.

  • Design

    We need help to build a better user experience on the Open Food Facts web site and mobile app, to improve their design, to create impactful presentation materials etc.

    Join our design effort

  • Development

    We have a lot of development work to do. On the Open Food Facts backend (Perl and MongoDB), API (JSON), web site (templatized HTML5, JS, Foundation), our Flutter mobile app for iOS and Android, but also to build new cool reuses etc. We have SDK projects in many programming languages to ensure anyone can reuse and contribute to Open Food Facts, in any language. We also have a growing Artificial Intelligence effort to simplify contribution work. Our code is on GitHub. Explore the list of projects on GitHub

  • Community building

    We need to build local communities in all countries and at the same time unite them globally.

    It is very difficult to bootstrap a local community in a country without living there, so your help to find the first very motivated participants is essential. Are you one of them?

  • Communication

    We are not sure what to write here, could you help?

    More seriously, there are lot of cool things that users, contributors and reusers do with Open Food Facts, it would be great to get more people to know about it. In particular, we need help for public and media relations.

  • Special projects

    There are lots of interesting and original applications of food open data that we could work on with government food agencies, food producers, researchers, universities, schools, NGOs etc. Maybe you already have ideas? If you do, please help us to push them forward.

Let's talk!

A lot of ideas, energy and enthusiasm are shared in our contributors community, join us!

Here are some places where you can meet other contributors, talk to them and work with them:

Make a difference

We have several important on-going operations, join us!

Here are some places where you can have impact now:

Explore on-going projects

There are many more ways to contribute to Open Food Facts, please join us on Slack and let's start the discussion!