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		<h1>Open Food Facts</h1>
		<h2 class="subheader">The free food products database.</h2>
		<blockquote style="border-left:none;border-right: 1px solid #DDDDDD;">Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are.
		<cite>Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin - 1825</cite></blockquote>

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		<h2>Open your food and know what you eat</h2>
		<h4 class="subheader">Be part of our collaborative, free and open database of food products from around the world!</h4>
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		<h3>A food products database</h3>
		<p>Open Food Facts is a database of food products with ingredients, allergens, nutrition facts and all
		the tidbits of information we can find on product labels.
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		<h3>Made by everyone</h3>
		<p>Open Food Facts is a non-profit association of volunteers.</p>
		<p>1800+ contributors like you have added 43 000+ products from 150 countries using our
<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.openfoodfacts.scanner">Android</a>,
<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/open-food-facts/id588797948">iPhone</a> or
<a href="http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/openfoodfacts/5d7cf939-cfd9-4ac0-86d7-91b946f4df34">Windows Phone</a> app
or their camera to scan barcodes and upload pictures of products and their labels.
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		<h3>For everyone</h3>
		<p>Data about food is of public interest and has to be open.
The complete database is published as open data
and can be reused by anyone and for any use. Check-out the <a href="#reuses">cool reuses</a> or make your own!
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		<h2>Make better food choices</h2>
		<h4 class="subheader">Knowledge is power. Food knowledge is power to eat better!</h4>
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		<h3>Decode labels</h3>
		<p>Food additives E-numbers, allergens, packaging codes... Open Food Facts helps you to make sense of
the fine print on products labels.
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		<img src="/images/svg/nutrition-grade-icon.svg" alt="Nutrition grade"/>
		<p>We also grade the nutritional quality of each product.</p>
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		<img src="/images/svg/find-products-icon.svg" alt="Find products"/>
		<h3>Find products</h3>
		<p>Our <a href="/cgi/search.pl">search form</a> includes dozens of criteria so that you can find
product that match your criteria.
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		<a href="http://world.openfoodfacts.org/cgi/search.pl?action=process&tagtype_0=categories&tag_contains_0=contains&tag_0=Breakfast%20cereals&sort_by=unique_scans_n&page_size=20&axis_x=sugars&axis_y=fat&series_nutrition_grades=on&graph=1">
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		<h3>Compare and change</h3>
		<p>Do you know which breakfast cereals have the less fat and sugar? In 3 clicks you can create
an interactive graph to show it. So you can change for healthier cereals, and by comparing products
from different brands, you encourage producers to make them better.
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		<a href="/label/fair-trade/origins"><img src="/images/svg/fairtrade-origins-min.svg" alt="Origins of ingredients of Fair Trade products" /></a>
		<h3>Explore and discover</h3>
		<p>Curious about food? Explore products by facets like brands, categories,
labels, origins of ingredients etc. Facets can be combined to discover new insights,
for instance to map the <a href="/label/fair-trade/origins">origins of ingredients that bear a fair trade label</a>.
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		<h2>Food for thought, innovation and science</h2>
		<h4 class="subheader">Our data can be reused for education, new products and services, research and more!</h4>
		<p class="text-left">The Open Food Facts database is open data published under the Open Database Licence. Anyone can use it
for any purpose - commercial or non-commercial - provided the source of the data is attributed and improvements to the
database are shared in a similar way.</p>
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			<h3>Education</h3>
			<p>How many food commercials have you seen in your life? Open data can help to see the facts under the marketing.</p>
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		<a href="http://howmuchsugar.in"><img src="/images/svg/howmuchsugar-icon.svg" alt="How much sugar?" /></a>
		<h4 class="subheader">How much sugar?</h4>
		<p>Can you guess the equivalent amount of sugar cubes in your food? Try <a href="http://howmuchsugar.in">How much sugar?</a> to find out.</p>
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			<h3>Products and services</h3>
			<p>Open Food Facts data can be reused in both non-commercial and commercial projects, as long as improvements to the database
are shared as well.</p>			
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		<a href="http://madenear.me"><img src="/images/svg/madenearme-icon.png" alt="Made Near Me" /></a>
		<h4 class="subheader">Made Near Me</h4>
		<p>Know where your food comes from and Eat Local with <a href="http://madenear.me">Made Near Me!</a></p>
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			<h3>Science</h3>
			<p>Open Food Facts data is used by scientists in different fields (Nutrition, Biology, Linked Open Data...).
			And you don't need a PhD to take part in citizen science!</p>
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		<h4 class="subheader">Nutrition grades</h4>
		<p>The French National Nutrition and Health Program uses Open Food Facts data to validate the formula of its nutrition quality score
		and nutrition grades.</p>
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		<p>See <a href="/reuses">all reuses</a>, or <a href="/data">check out our data</a> to create yours!</p>
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