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* automatic identification of allergens (both substances and traces, see below)
 
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=== Help and discussion ===
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Discussions related to ingredients take place in the [https://app.slack.com/client/T02KVRT1Q/C06A7LENM/thread/C06A7LENM-1584353586.109900?cdn_fallback=2 #ingredients channel] on our Slack space.
  
 
=== Filling ingredients data ===
 
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==== Taxonomy ====
 
==== 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 [https://github.com/openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-server/blob/master/taxonomies/ingredients.txt has build a taxonomy]. You can contribute to it.
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To allow analysis and translation, Open Food Facts community [https://github.com/openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-server/blob/master/taxonomies/ingredients.txt has build a taxonomy]. You can contribute to it.
  
 
==== Ingredients analyzing ====
 
==== Ingredients analyzing ====

Revision as of 15:40, 16 March 2020

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.

Help and discussion

Discussions related to ingredients take place in the #ingredients channel on our Slack space.

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

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.

As a result we can find metrics related to Ingredients Analysis Quality.

Ingredients issues

See issues related to ingredients.