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Open Food Facts

Crowd-sourced database of 3M+ packaged food products: ingredients, nutrition, labels, Nutri-Score.

EuropeGlobalCommunity server

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About this source

Look up products by barcode, search by name or brand, compare products and browse taxonomies (allergens, additives, categories). Covers European retail well, including Sweden.

Questions you can ask Open Food Facts

Type them into Kahubi’s chat once the source is connected.

Find randomised trials of an intervention for a condition and list their identifiers.

What comes back: Studies with registry or PubMed identifiers and key design details.

What the assistant can do with it

The 4 tools this server offers to Kahubi. The assistant picks the right one for each question.

  • off_get_product

    Fetch a packaged food product by barcode (EAN-13 or UPC) from Open Food Facts.

  • off_search_products

    Search Open Food Facts by full-text query, structured tag filters, or both at once.

  • off_compare_products

    Side-by-side nutrition and scoring comparison for 2–10 products by barcode.

  • off_browse_taxonomy

    Resolve a human term to the canonical Open Food Facts tag ID that off_search_products filters on.

Good to know

  • Community server. An open-source server maintained by the MCP community. Kahubi tests it with live queries before listing it and health-checks it regularly.
  • Cited, checkable answers. Results are treated as retrieved material and cited with the source’s own identifiers, so you can open every record the answer relied on.
  • Your files stay private. Only the search the assistant writes for your question is sent to Open Food Facts.

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