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Open Food Facts

Open Food Facts, the open database of packaged foods (world.openfoodfacts.org): product facts by barcode (name, brand, quantity, countries, ingredients, allergens, additives, Nutri-Score, NOVA, per-100g and per-serving nutrition, images), full-text and filtered product search over the Search-a-licious service, and taxonomy autocomplete for categories, brands, labels and countries. Anonymous read API; data under ODbL, images CC BY-SA.

6 Firecrawl tools use Open Food Facts

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const result = await firecrawl.scrape({
  alexandria: {
    provider: "world-openfoodfacts-org",
    capability: "foods/suggest",
    options: {
      prefix: "oat",
      size: 8,
      taxonomies: [
        "category",
        "brand",
      ],
    },
  },
});

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{
  "count": 8,
  "lang": "en",
  "observed_at_ms": 1791942140987,
  "options": [
    {
      "id": "en:oat",
      "taxonomy": "category",
      "text": "Oat"
    },
    {
      "id": "en:oat-blenders",
      "taxonomy": "brand",
      "text": "Oat Blenders"
    },
    {
      "id": "en:oat-brans",
      "taxonomy": "category",
      "text": "Oat bran"
    },
    {
      "id": "en:oat-flakes",
      "taxonomy": "category",
      "text": "Oat flakes"
    },
    {
      "id": "en:cooked-oat-flakes",
      "taxonomy": "category",
      "text": "Oat flakes cooked in water"
    },
    {
      "id": "en:oat-flours",
      "taxonomy": "category",
      "text": "Oat flours"
    },
    {
      "id": "en:oat-groats",
      "taxonomy": "category",
      "text": "Oat groats"
    },
    {
      "id": "en:oat-milk-yogurts",
      "taxonomy": "category",
      "text": "Oat milk yogurts"
    }
  ],
  "prefix": "oat",
  "taxonomies": [
    "category",
    "brand"
  ]
}

Firecrawl tools

6

Ready-made Firecrawl tools that call Open Food Facts.

+2Sugar levy reformulation auditUse when a public-health nutritionist, policy analyst or food campaigner wants to know whether a sugar levy or labelling rule is changing what is on shelves. Samples packaged drinks or snacks in a country, reads each product's sugar per 100 ml or g, compares with reference foods and with the population obesity trend, and reports which brands reformulated.10 toolsOpen

School lunch product vetting for a food service directorUse when a school district food service director is vetting branded products for the menu cycle. Reads ingredients, allergens and Nutri-Score from Open Food Facts, confirms nutrient values by UPC in USDA FoodData Central, and checks FDA recalls for each product and maker. Produces an approve, review or reject list with the reasons.5 toolsOpen

School menu sodium and allergen checkUse when a school nutrition director reviews a vendor's menu cycle before the term. Pulls nutrient values for each branded item from USDA FoodData Central, checks allergens and processing level on Open Food Facts by barcode, and screens for recent FDA food recalls on the same brands, producing a compliance and swap list.5 toolsOpen

Calorie and allergen card for a new dishUse when a chef, menu developer or chain R&D lead is adding a dish and needs a calorie estimate and allergen statement before menus print. Builds the recipe's nutrients from USDA FoodData Central, reads Open Food Facts for branded components' allergens and additives, and checks FDA food recalls for each supplier brand. Produces a draft card clearly marked as an estimate.5 toolsOpen

+1Produce recall traceback exposureUse when a grower, packer or fresh-produce buyer hears of a foodborne outbreak or recall in a crop they handle. Pulls the matching FDA recall records, reads published outbreak investigations for the pathogen and produce, checks which retail products list the ingredient, and returns an exposure note with what to check in your own lots.6 toolsOpen

+1Export nutrient claim consistency checkUse when a food exporter or brand selling the same product in the US, Canada, the Netherlands and Australia needs its nutrition panel and claims to hold up against each market's reference food database. Compares the product's stated values with official reference values per country and flags claims that would fail in one market.10 toolsOpen

Benchmarks

Health benchmarks

Quality, speed and cost, last 24 hours, across every agent call to Open Food Facts through Alexandria.

Quality: 95.8%; Calls answered without a tool error
Speed: 45.5 s; 95% of successful calls finish faster
Cost: 5 credits; Firecrawl credits per call
Calls: 72; Last 24 hours, every Alexandria user

Quality and speed of each tool, last 24 hours
Tool	Quality	Speed	Calls
Search	100%	833 ms	42
Product	90%	45.5 s	30

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