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🌐 Open Food Facts ~ barcode lookup for 3M+ food products

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Crowd-sourced database of 3M+ food products: scan any barcode for ingredients, nutrition, Nutri-Score and labels. Keyless for reads; includes many Malaysian supermarket products. Global, works for MY.

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Call it

curl 'https://world.openfoodfacts.org/api/v2/product/5449000000996.json'

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API: Open Food Facts ~ barcode lookup for 3M+ food products
Provider: Open Food Facts
Endpoint: GET https://world.openfoodfacts.org/api/v2/product/5449000000996.json
It returns JSON.

Source: Open Food Facts (https://openfoodfacts.github.io/openfoodfacts-server/api/)
Source type: Curated source
Endpoint type: Provider API base URL
Integration difficulty: Copy-paste ready
Last checked: 2026-07-03
Production caveat: Still handle empty rows, schema changes, pagination, stale coverage, and temporary upstream failures.

Help me fetch this and build a simple page that displays it nicely. Include basic production safeguards for errors, empty responses, schema changes, caching, and rate limits.

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