hsilvosa/open-food-facts

Open Food Facts Historical Snapshot

This is an unmodified, point-in-time copy of the Open Food Facts product database JSONL export captured on 16 August 2026. It supports reproducible research, historical analysis, and data engineering with a fixed version of a database that otherwise changes continuously.

Open Food Facts is a collaborative, multilingual database of food products. Records can include identifiers, names, brands, ingredients, allergens, nutrition facts, packaging, labels, countries, data-quality indicators, computed scores, source metadata, and localized fields.

This repository is an independent historical mirror. It is not operated by or affiliated with Open Food Facts.

Snapshot details

Property	Value
Capture date	2026-08-16
Format	Gzip-compressed JSON Lines
Compressed size	12,682,967,056 bytes (12.68 GB)
SHA-256	3136ab6da041b0c61188dcd99421e7456db51ee14ec873e4eeb00b15f65700d5
Split	train (the complete snapshot; no semantic train/test split is implied)
Source	Open Food Facts data exports

The archive is data/raw/2026-08-16/openfoodfacts-products.jsonl.gz. The adjacent manifest.json records its capture date, size, checksum, and download completion time.

Data structure

Each line is one JSON object describing one product state. The upstream schema is sparse and evolves over time, so records do not all contain the same fields or value shapes. Nested arrays and objects are retained exactly as supplied; no flattening, filtering, normalization, or deduplication was applied.

Group	Representative fields
Identifiers	code, _id, id
Product text	product_name, generic_name, localized variants such as product_name_en
Classification	brands, categories_tags, labels_tags, countries_tags
Ingredients and allergens	ingredients, ingredients_text, allergens_tags, traces_tags
Nutrition	nutriments, nutrient_levels, nutriscore_grade, nova_group
Packaging and environment	packagings, packaging_tags, environmental_score_*
Provenance and quality	creator, last_editor, data_sources_tags, data_quality_*
Timestamps	created_t, last_modified_t, last_updated_t

Missing, empty, legacy, and computed fields are normal. Product image binaries are not included, although records may retain upstream image metadata.

Loading

The archive is large and gzip is not seekable. Streaming is recommended for exploration.

from datasets import load_dataset

products = load_dataset(
    'hsilvosa/open-food-facts',
    name='snapshot-2026-08-16',
    split='train',
    streaming=True,
)

for product in products.take(3):
    print(product.get('code'), product.get('product_name'))

To process a downloaded copy one record at a time:

import gzip
import json

path = 'data/raw/2026-08-16/openfoodfacts-products.jsonl.gz'
with gzip.open(path, 'rt', encoding='utf-8') as stream:
    for line in stream:
        product = json.loads(line)
        # Process one product without extracting the archive to disk.

Because nested structures are irregular, downstream users should define a stable projection rather than assume every discovered field is present or uniformly typed.

Integrity

Verify the downloaded archive with:

Get-FileHash openfoodfacts-products.jsonl.gz -Algorithm SHA256

Expected SHA-256:

3136ab6da041b0c61188dcd99421e7456db51ee14ec873e4eeb00b15f65700d5

Intended uses

Appropriate uses include reproducible snapshot analysis, historical comparisons, product search, entity resolution, taxonomy research, data-quality studies, and nutrition, ingredient, allergen, packaging, or sustainability analyses that account for missing and user-contributed data.

This dataset is not medical advice, an authoritative source for allergen safety, or a complete registry of products in any market. Health or safety applications must verify information against current product packaging and authoritative sources.

Limitations and responsible use

• Open Food Facts is crowdsourced. Records can be incomplete, outdated, duplicated, incorrectly entered, or inconsistently translated.
• Coverage is uneven across countries, languages, brands, and product categories.
• Computed nutrition and environmental scores may be missing, based on incomplete inputs, or differ from scores produced by newer software.
• Corrections made upstream after 16 August 2026 are not reflected here.
• The raw export may contain public contributor usernames and editing metadata. Do not use them to profile, rank, or deanonymize contributors.
• The presence or absence of a product, ingredient, allergen, label, or score is not a guarantee.

Use the Open Food Facts website for current data, corrections, and official services.

License and attribution

Open Food Facts publishes its database under the Open Database License (ODbL), including attribution and share-alike requirements. Separate terms apply to individual database contents and product images; this mirror contains no image binaries. Review the Open Food Facts terms of use before redistributing the data or publishing a derived database.

Attribute Open Food Facts as the original source, link to the project, identify this repository as a historical mirror, and state the snapshot date. Do not imply endorsement.

Suggested attribution:

Contains information from Open Food Facts, made available under the Open Database License. Historical snapshot captured on 16 August 2026.

Maintenance

This is a fixed snapshot and is not automatically synchronized with the live database. Questions about this mirror can be raised in the repository Community tab; product corrections should be submitted to Open Food Facts.