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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.

📡 Source on GitHub
18.1/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 20/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-15 · rubric v0.22.0
AccessFreemium
1 APIs

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scored 2026-09-15 · rubric v0.22.0
Composite quality — 18.1/100 · 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 4.1 / 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 Well-Known Document 0 / 5
Create-or-Update Ergonomics does not apply to this provider. The published contracts declare no write operations, and a read-only API cannot create-or-update. The facet is excluded from this provider's denominator entirely — not scored zero. A reference or data API is not deficient for being unable to upsert.
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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 Cgi Product API

OPEN COLLECTION

Open Food Facts Cgi Search API

OPEN COLLECTION

Open Food Facts Cgi Taxonomy API

OPEN COLLECTION

Open Food Facts Cgi Taxonomy Suggestions API

OPEN COLLECTION

Open Food Facts API

OPEN COLLECTION

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Open Food Facts Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

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.

Open Food Facts Finops

FINOPS

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

AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure
VulnerabilityDisclosure
 DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Company 2

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Blog
Blog

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
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: true
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - openapi
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
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: Consuming
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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