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Open Food Facts

Open Food Facts is a food products database made by everyone, for everyone. You can use it to make better food choices, and as it is open data, anyone can re-use it for any purpose.

Open Food Facts publishes 5 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Cgi API, Product API, Search API, and 2 more.

Open Food Facts’ developer surface includes engineering blog and 5 more developer resources.

18.7/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 20/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-25 · rubric v0.14.0
AccessFreemium
5 APIs

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scored 2026-08-25 · rubric v0.14.0
Composite quality — 18.7/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 12.2 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.5 / 20
Access Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 1.4 / 13
Contract Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 4.6 / 10
Agent readiness — 20/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
Documented Reversibility 6 / 6
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 9 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 4 / 4
Delegated User Identity 0 / 6
Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5
Registration Without a Human 0 / 6
Agentic Commerce Surface 0 / 5
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APIs 5

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Open Food Facts Cgi API

The Cgi API from Open Food Facts — 1 operation(s) for cgi.

Open Food Facts Product API

The Product API from Open Food Facts — 3 operation(s) for product.

Open Food Facts Search API

The Search API from Open Food Facts — 1 operation(s) for search.

Open Food Facts Taxonomy API

The Taxonomy API from Open Food Facts — 1 operation(s) for taxonomy.

Open Food Facts Taxonomy Suggestions API

The Taxonomy Suggestions API from Open Food Facts — 1 operation(s) for taxonomy suggestions.

Open Collections 7

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Open Food Facts Cgi API

OPEN COLLECTION

Open Food Facts API

OPEN COLLECTION

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Open Food Facts Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Open Food Facts Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Open Food Facts Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Open Food Facts Agentic Access

7 operations

7 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: open-food-facts
name: Open Food Facts
description: Open Food Facts is a food products database made by everyone, for everyone. You can use it to make better food
  choices, and as it is open data, anyone can re-use it for any purpose.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/open-food-facts.png
tags: []
created: '2025-03-01'
modified: '2026-05-19'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/open-food-facts/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.23'
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/open-food-facts-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/open-food-facts-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/open-food-facts-domain-security.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/openfoodfacts
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/open-food-facts
- url: https://blog.openfoodfacts.org/en/feed/
  type: Blog
apis:
- aid: open-food-facts:open-food-facts-cgi-api
  name: Open Food Facts Cgi API
  description: The Cgi API from Open Food Facts — 1 operation(s) for cgi.
  humanURL: ' https://world.openfoodfacts.org/'
  tags:
  - CGI
  tags_raw:
  - Cgi
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/open-food-facts-cgi-api-openapi.yml
- aid: open-food-facts:open-food-facts-product-api
  name: Open Food Facts Product API
  description: The Product API from Open Food Facts — 3 operation(s) for product.
  humanURL: ' https://world.openfoodfacts.org/'
  tags:
  - Product
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/open-food-facts-product-api-openapi.yml
- aid: open-food-facts:open-food-facts-search-api
  name: Open Food Facts Search API
  description: The Search API from Open Food Facts — 1 operation(s) for search.
  humanURL: ' https://world.openfoodfacts.org/'
  tags:
  - Search
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/open-food-facts-search-api-openapi.yml
- aid: open-food-facts:open-food-facts-taxonomy-api
  name: Open Food Facts Taxonomy API
  description: The Taxonomy API from Open Food Facts — 1 operation(s) for taxonomy.
  humanURL: ' https://world.openfoodfacts.org/'
  tags:
  - Taxonomy
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/open-food-facts-taxonomy-api-openapi.yml
- aid: open-food-facts:open-food-facts-taxonomy-suggestions-api
  name: Open Food Facts Taxonomy Suggestions API
  description: The Taxonomy Suggestions API from Open Food Facts — 1 operation(s) for taxonomy suggestions.
  humanURL: ' https://world.openfoodfacts.org/'
  tags:
  - Taxonomy Suggestions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/open-food-facts-taxonomy-suggestions-api-openapi.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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