Ingredients
Ingredients represent one of the most important data to be collected, as it is used for many usages.
Usages
- Nova calculation
- Nutri-Score calculation: it is used to calculate the proportion of fruit and nuts
- evaluation of some food preferences such as vegetarians, vegans, etc.
- automatic identification of allergens (both substances and traces, see below)
- etc.
Filling ingredients data
Thanks to automatic Optical Characters Recognition (OCR), this field can be filled by softwares. But OCR is not always good, and you should always verify the result.
Database
In the database, this field is called ingredients_[country code].
Tools
Taxonomy
Ingredients analysis also produce an array of all ingredients which allows translation in other languages. To allow analysis and translation, Open Food Facts community has build a taxonomy. You can contribute to it.
Ingredients analyzing
Analyzing ingredients is not an easy task. A whole pas is dedicated to Ingredients Extraction and Analysis.