food_by_barcode
Packaged food facts by barcode
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Look up a packaged food by its barcode and get the fields that answer "can this person eat this?" — ingredients, allergens, traces, additives, Nutri-Score, NOVA processing group and per-100g nutrition. Data is from Open Food Facts, which is crowd-sourced and openly licensed: coverage is uneven by country and a product can be listed with most nutrition empty, so every response carries a completeness flag and missing values are null rather than estimated. A barcode not in the database returns not_found and is NOT charged. Costs $0.005 USDC per call via x402 on Base.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| barcode | string | yes | 6-14 digit product barcode, e.g. '737628064502'. |
Raw JSON schema
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"barcode": {
"type": "string",
"description": "6-14 digit product barcode, e.g. '737628064502'.",
"examples": [
"737628064502"
]
}
},
"required": [
"barcode"
],
"additionalProperties": false
}