Open Food Facts MCP

An MCP server providing access to the Open Food Facts crowd-sourced database of over 3 million products. It enables agents to fetch product details by barcode, search for items using text, tags, allergens, or nutrition filters, compare up to 10 products side-by-side on metrics like Nutri-Score and NOVA, and resolve human-readable terms to canonical tag IDs for filtering.

Package and access

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Community listingLocal stdioSource reviewed; not executedPublished by cyanheads

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What you can do with it

Fetch product ingredients and nutrition facts by barcode
Search for products by allergen exclusions or nutrient thresholds
Compare multiple products side-by-side on health scores
Resolve common food terms to canonical taxonomy tags

Source and maintenance

Community listingRegistry 0.4.1

mcp-registry: io.github.cyanheads/openfoodfacts-mcp-server@0.4.1 Source repository

Maintenance checked: Oct 31, 2026, 10:59 PM UTC

Packages and installation

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@cyanheads/openfoodfacts-mcp-server 0.4.1

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@cyanheads/openfoodfacts-mcp-server package definition

{
  "version": "0.4.1",
  "transport": "stdio",
  "identifier": "@cyanheads/openfoodfacts-mcp-server",
  "runtimeHint": "npx",
  "registryType": "npm",
  "registryBaseUrl": "https://registry.npmjs.org",
  "environmentVariables": [
    {
      "name": "OFF_BASE_URL",
      "format": "string",
      "default": "https://world.openfoodfacts.org",
      "description": "Open Food Facts API base URL override. Useful for testing against a mock server."
    },
    {
      "name": "OFF_RATE_LIMIT_PRODUCT",
      "format": "string",
      "default": "15",
      "description": "Product read rate limit (requests/min). Matches the 15 req/min/IP Open Food Facts documents for product reads."
    },
    {
      "name": "OFF_RATE_LIMIT_SEARCH",
      "format": "string",
      "default": "10",
      "description": "Search rate limit (requests/min)."
    },
    {
      "name": "OFF_RATE_LIMIT_TAXONOMY",
      "format": "string",
      "default": "10",
      "description": "Taxonomy resolution rate limit (requests/min). Applies to the live tag-vocabulary lookups off_browse_taxonomy makes, to tag-value resolution on text searches, and to checking allergen and trace exclusions on every search; a spent budget falls back to the offline sample, or to the tag value as normalized, rather than failing, except that an exclusion it could not check is refused as retryable."
    },
    {
      "name": "MCP_LOG_LEVEL",
      "format": "string",
      "default": "info",
      "description": "Sets the minimum log level for output (e.g., 'debug', 'info', 'warn')."
    }
  ]
}

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Cursor

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Cursor configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "open-food-facts-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@cyanheads/openfoodfacts-mcp-server@0.4.1"
      ],
      "env": {
        "OFF_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_OFF_BASE_URL>",
        "OFF_RATE_LIMIT_PRODUCT": "<YOUR_OFF_RATE_LIMIT_PRODUCT>",
        "OFF_RATE_LIMIT_SEARCH": "<YOUR_OFF_RATE_LIMIT_SEARCH>",
        "OFF_RATE_LIMIT_TAXONOMY": "<YOUR_OFF_RATE_LIMIT_TAXONOMY>",
        "MCP_LOG_LEVEL": "<YOUR_MCP_LOG_LEVEL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cline

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Cline configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "open-food-facts-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@cyanheads/openfoodfacts-mcp-server@0.4.1"
      ],
      "env": {
        "OFF_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_OFF_BASE_URL>",
        "OFF_RATE_LIMIT_PRODUCT": "<YOUR_OFF_RATE_LIMIT_PRODUCT>",
        "OFF_RATE_LIMIT_SEARCH": "<YOUR_OFF_RATE_LIMIT_SEARCH>",
        "OFF_RATE_LIMIT_TAXONOMY": "<YOUR_OFF_RATE_LIMIT_TAXONOMY>",
        "MCP_LOG_LEVEL": "<YOUR_MCP_LOG_LEVEL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

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VS Code configuration

{
  "servers": {
    "open-food-facts-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@cyanheads/openfoodfacts-mcp-server@0.4.1"
      ],
      "env": {
        "OFF_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_OFF_BASE_URL>",
        "OFF_RATE_LIMIT_PRODUCT": "<YOUR_OFF_RATE_LIMIT_PRODUCT>",
        "OFF_RATE_LIMIT_SEARCH": "<YOUR_OFF_RATE_LIMIT_SEARCH>",
        "OFF_RATE_LIMIT_TAXONOMY": "<YOUR_OFF_RATE_LIMIT_TAXONOMY>",
        "MCP_LOG_LEVEL": "<YOUR_MCP_LOG_LEVEL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

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Claude Desktop configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "open-food-facts-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@cyanheads/openfoodfacts-mcp-server@0.4.1"
      ],
      "env": {
        "OFF_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_OFF_BASE_URL>",
        "OFF_RATE_LIMIT_PRODUCT": "<YOUR_OFF_RATE_LIMIT_PRODUCT>",
        "OFF_RATE_LIMIT_SEARCH": "<YOUR_OFF_RATE_LIMIT_SEARCH>",
        "OFF_RATE_LIMIT_TAXONOMY": "<YOUR_OFF_RATE_LIMIT_TAXONOMY>",
        "MCP_LOG_LEVEL": "<YOUR_MCP_LOG_LEVEL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

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