Include raw and generic food products from non branded food databases (USDA, Ciqual etc.) in Open Food Facts

[stephanegigandet]

There have been many discussions about that on the OFF Slack over the years.

e.g. https://openfoodfacts.slack.com/archives/C02RP77EY/p1619181241031400

https://openfoodfacts.slack.com/archives/C043X1X90/p1596921005382000

https://openfoodfacts.slack.com/archives/C02KVRT2C/p1589302557108900

[teolemon]

• I have a few ideas (calorie trackers), but I'd be very curious about use cases.
• Also, that would be a special API with essentially text queries (or bogus barcodes, which raises some issues 1000 foods per 140 existing databases)
• Generic databases often have terrible names (like Parsil, fresh, cut )
• Currently, there's no way to scan a non-barcoded product. We'd need a state of the art Computer Vision model to do anything interesting on mobile

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[Cederick]

It would be nice so it could be linked to different entries for bell peppers in red like https://de.openfoodfacts.org/produkt/4061458242097/bio-paprika-gut-bio and https://de.openfoodfacts.org/produkt/4311527911943/paprika-rot-markt-tag that have no nutrition values assigned to them or other things.

https://naehrwertdaten.ch/ could also be included in the list of possible inclusions and is already used by FOSS software like Energize (https://codeberg.org/epinez/Energize/)