Re:Open Food Facts – A free food products database
by schoen on Saturday January 24, 2015 @01:51PM
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Is there a way to use this database to determine if a food product is suitable for vegetarians or vegans?
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Re:Open Food Facts – A free food products database
by teolemon on Saturday January 24, 2015 @02:05PM
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You have all the labels available at http://world.openfoodfacts.org/labels but you still should of course exercise caution and read the packaging.
http://world.openfoodfacts.org/label/vegan http://world.openfoodfacts.org/label/vegetarian
Power tip: you can actually look for several criterias: eg: http://world.openfoodfacts.org/label/vegetarian/label/organi... or http://world.openfoodfacts.org/label/vegetarian/category/puf...
Re:Open Food Facts – A free food products database
by stephanebiz on Saturday January 24, 2015 @02:00PM
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We are trying to build a taxonomy of ingredients so that we can automatically analyze the ingredients list and find out if it's suitable for vegans, vegetarians, people who cannot eat gluten, lactose etc. There's still a lot of work to do, would you like to help?