Open Food Facts
Use this MCP server to Open Food Facts product, ingredient, allergen, and nutrition lookup....
Runs on your machine from its package; the steps are below.
What it does
- Reads
- Writes
- High impact
At most: only reads or looks up information.
What it costs
FreeOdel charges nothing per call. The publisher may charge for its own service.
Runs locally over stdio
This server isn't hosted — your MCP client launches it from a package registry. Use one of the commands below, or drop the config into your client (e.g. Claude Desktop).
Run
npx -y @mrfentmen/open-food-facts-mcp
MCP client config
{
"mcpServers": {
"open-food-facts": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@mrfentmen/open-food-facts-mcp"
]
}
}
}open-food-facts-mcp
Look up packaged food products when an agent needs ingredient, allergen, or nutrition context. This is useful for pantry tools, recipe assistants, accessibility workflows, and barcode experiments.
Tools
get_product: retrieve a product by barcode.search_products: search products by text with a deliberately small result set.
Open Food Facts is community contributed. Missing or incorrect fields are possible, and nutrition or allergen data should not replace professional dietary or medical advice. The server sends a descriptive User-Agent and needs no key.
Run
npm install
npm run build
node dist/index.js
