Open Food Facts

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.

Endpoints

Look up product by barcode

GET https://world.openfoodfacts.org/api/v2/product/737628064502 — Free

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cURL

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

curl "https://api.lava.so/v1/forward?u=https%3A%2F%2Fworld.openfoodfacts.org%2Fapi%2Fv2%2Fproduct%2F737628064502" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LAVA_SECRET_KEY"

Search for food products

GET https://world.openfoodfacts.org/api/v2/search?categories_tags=breakfast-cereals&fields=product_name,nutriscore_grade — Free

SDK
cURL

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

curl "https://api.lava.so/v1/forward?u=https%3A%2F%2Fworld.openfoodfacts.org%2Fapi%2Fv2%2Fsearch%3Fcategories_tags%3Dbreakfast-cereals%26fields%3Dproduct_name%2Cnutriscore_grade" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LAVA_SECRET_KEY"

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