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Add Erythritol (and others?) in nutrition facts features #7837

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CharlesNepote opened this issue Dec 13, 2022 · 1 comment · Fixed by #7941
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Add Erythritol (and others?) in nutrition facts features #7837

CharlesNepote opened this issue Dec 13, 2022 · 1 comment · Fixed by #7941

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CharlesNepote commented Dec 13, 2022

Some products do display erythritol amount:

We can find many more by listing products containing erythritol as one of their ingredients.

It should be added in the following cases/features:

"Erythritol is a polyol, and according to the current rules as provided for in Article 5(1) of Directive 90/496/EEC, its energy would be calculated using the conversion factor for polyols, namely 10 kJ/g (2,4 kcal/g). Using this energy conversion factor would not fully inform the consumer about the reduced energy value of a product achieved by the use of erythritol in its manufacture. The Scientific Committee on Food in its opinion on erythritol, expressed on 5 March 2003, noted that the energy provided by erythritol was less than 0,9 kJ/g (less than 0,2 kcal/g). Therefore it is appropriate to adopt a suitable energy conversion factor for erythritol." Source: amending Council Directive 90/496/EEC on nutrition labelling for foodstuffs as regards recommended daily allowances, energy conversion factors and definitions.

Erythritol is displayed at least on the nutrition facts table of this product: https://world.openfoodfacts.org/product/0850005716358/brown-sugar
But other nutrients might be added that should be excluded from polyols when computing energy.

More than 1900 products has erythritol as an ingredient, and more than 800 of them are facing at least a data quality error.

@CharlesNepote CharlesNepote changed the title Add Erythritol in nutrition facts features Add Erythritol (and others?) in nutrition facts features Jan 3, 2023
alexgarel pushed a commit that referenced this issue Jan 4, 2023
feat: add erythritol as a nutrient #7837
stephanegigandet added a commit that referenced this issue Jan 4, 2023
* feat: add erythritol as a nutrient #7837

* erythritol is now in the nutrients taxonomy
stephanegigandet added a commit that referenced this issue Jan 5, 2023
* feat: add erythritol as a nutrient #7837

* erythritol is now in the nutrients taxonomy

* fix: quality check when we have erythritol without polyols
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At the end, this product should not return a "en:energy-value-in-kcal-does-not-match-value-computed-from-other-nutrients" error:

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