[HN Gopher] Open Food Facts - a food products database made by e...
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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...
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