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Open Food Facts MCP

An open-source Model Context Protocol server that enables AI agents to interact with the Open Food Facts database. It supports searching for products by name or barcode, retrieving detailed nutrition data and ingredients, filtering by categories or health scores, and contributing new product data or images to the community-maintained database.

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Open Food Facts MCP logo, by domdomeggCommunity listingLocal stdioSource reviewed; not executedPublished by domdomegg
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  • Popularity 3 GitHub stars

What you can do with it

  • Look up a product by name to retrieve nutrition data
  • Look up a product by barcode to fetch ingredients and Nutri-Score
  • Search for healthy options using category and nutrition grade filters
  • Contribute data by adding or updating product entries

Source and maintenance

Community listingRegistry 2.6.0MIT
mcp-registry: io.github.domdomegg/openfoodfacts-mcp@2.6.0Source repositoryProject website
Last repository push
Latest release
v2.6.0
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openfoodfacts-mcp 2.6.0

npmnpx
openfoodfacts-mcp package definition
{
  "version": "2.6.0",
  "transport": "stdio",
  "identifier": "openfoodfacts-mcp",
  "runtimeHint": "npx",
  "registryType": "npm",
  "environmentVariables": [
    {
      "name": "OFF_USER_AGENT",
      "isRequired": true,
      "description": "User-Agent string in format 'AppName/Version (email)'. Required by the Open Food Facts API."
    },
    {
      "name": "OFF_USER_ID",
      "description": "Open Food Facts user ID (optional, needed for write operations)."
    },
    {
      "name": "OFF_PASSWORD",
      "description": "Open Food Facts password (optional, needed for write operations)."
    },
    {
      "name": "OFF_COUNTRY",
      "description": "Country subdomain (default: 'world')."
    }
  ]
}

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Maintenance history

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  • · repository · passed · metadata changed · updated
  • · backfill · recorded · Pre-expansion baseline; unobserved rich metadata remains unknown

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Cursor

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Cursor configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "open-food-facts-mcp-openfoodfacts-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "openfoodfacts-mcp@2.6.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "OFF_USER_AGENT": "<YOUR_OFF_USER_AGENT>",
        "OFF_USER_ID": "<YOUR_OFF_USER_ID>",
        "OFF_PASSWORD": "<YOUR_OFF_PASSWORD>",
        "OFF_COUNTRY": "<YOUR_OFF_COUNTRY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cline

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Cline configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "open-food-facts-mcp-openfoodfacts-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "openfoodfacts-mcp@2.6.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "OFF_USER_AGENT": "<YOUR_OFF_USER_AGENT>",
        "OFF_USER_ID": "<YOUR_OFF_USER_ID>",
        "OFF_PASSWORD": "<YOUR_OFF_PASSWORD>",
        "OFF_COUNTRY": "<YOUR_OFF_COUNTRY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

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VS Code configuration
{
  "servers": {
    "open-food-facts-mcp-openfoodfacts-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "openfoodfacts-mcp@2.6.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "OFF_USER_AGENT": "<YOUR_OFF_USER_AGENT>",
        "OFF_USER_ID": "<YOUR_OFF_USER_ID>",
        "OFF_PASSWORD": "<YOUR_OFF_PASSWORD>",
        "OFF_COUNTRY": "<YOUR_OFF_COUNTRY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

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Claude Desktop configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "open-food-facts-mcp-openfoodfacts-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "openfoodfacts-mcp@2.6.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "OFF_USER_AGENT": "<YOUR_OFF_USER_AGENT>",
        "OFF_USER_ID": "<YOUR_OFF_USER_ID>",
        "OFF_PASSWORD": "<YOUR_OFF_PASSWORD>",
        "OFF_COUNTRY": "<YOUR_OFF_COUNTRY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

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