About Open Food Facts
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 Open Food Facts is connected.
“Which oat drinks sold in Sweden have the lowest sugar per 100 ml?”
What comes back: Products with brand, barcode, sugar content and Nutri-Score, from Open Food Facts records.
“Which products in Open Food Facts contain the additive E171?”
What comes back: Products with the additive, their brands and countries of sale.
Open Food Facts MCP tools
The 4 tools the Open Food Facts server offers to Kahubi. The assistant picks the right one for each question.
off_get_productFetch a packaged food product by barcode (4–40 digits: EAN-13, EAN-8, UPC, and the shorter and longer codes Open Food Facts also holds) from Open Food Facts.
off_search_productsSearch Open Food Facts by full-text query, structured tag filters, or both at once.
off_compare_productsSide-by-side nutrition and scoring comparison for 2–10 products per call by barcode; a repeated barcode is compared once, so two identical barcodes yield one row, and barcodes p...
off_browse_taxonomyResolve a human term to the canonical Open Food Facts tag ID that off_search_products filters on.
Using Open Food Facts in Kahubi
- 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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- ClinicalTrials.govSearch registered clinical trials, read full study records, posted results and eligibility criteria.
- Clinical evidence (trials, FDA labels, adverse events)ClinicalTrials.gov, openFDA drug labels, adverse-event reports and approvals alongside PubMed.
- CDC data and WONDERUS public-health datasets (data.cdc.gov) and CDC WONDER mortality and natality queries.
- NCATS Inxight DrugsEvery FDA-registered substance with its UNII, plus NCATS-curated approval status, indications, targets and pharmacokinetics.
- openFDAFDA drug and device adverse events, recalls, labels and shortages.