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Scan a barcode and get ingredients, additives and a nutrition score from a database anyone can edit. Wikipedia for groceries.
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Open Food Facts sits in Food & Recipes under Learn, filed as a minute.
About this category: Recipe engines that start from your ingredients rather than your ambitions, plus the food writing worth reading for its own sake.
Yes. Open Food Facts is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use Open Food Facts without signing up for anything.
Yes — Open Food Facts is at its best on a phone.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "A minute": One quick round, then you can leave.
Recipes that explain the science first and then tell you what to do. The food-lab pieces are why it has the reputation it has.
Deb Perelman cooking from a famously tiny New York kitchen since 2006, testing everything obsessively and writing about it well.
Tick off what is genuinely in your cupboards and it ranks the recipes you can make right now, with nothing missing.
World atlas of traditional dishes and the specific places that still make them properly. Endless, and reliably makes you hungry.
A catalogue page for every book ever published, a good many of them borrowable straight in the browser.
A hand-drawn library of mix-and-match people, free for anything, and quietly the source of half the internet's illustrations.
Free, ad-free versions of the actual academic instruments, with the collected raw data published for anyone who wants to poke at it.
A free street-view guessing game with unlimited rounds, built for people unwilling to pay a monthly subscription to look at roads.
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