Openfoodfacts MCP server

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by cyanheads·io.github.cyanheads/openfoodfacts-mcp-server·v0.4.3·1 stars

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Barcode lookup, nutrition search, and product comparison for 3M+ crowd-sourced food products.

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How Openfoodfacts compares

Against every graded E-commerce MCP server, from our own scans and uptime checks. Updated after each scan run.

Safety score: 93/100; higher than 95% of 2,174 E-commerce servers
Uptime: 100%; of our recent checks; the typical remote E-commerce server answers 100%
Response time: 506 ms; faster than 31% of 1,527 E-commerce servers
GitHub stars: 1; more than 65% of 1,047 E-commerce servers
Downloads a week: 348; more than 84% of 411 E-commerce servers with a package

Release history: 11 versions in the registry since 2026-08-25, latest 2026-11-03, typically one every 5 days.

Install Openfoodfacts in Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code

claude mcp add --transport http openfoodfacts-mcp-server https://openfoodfacts.caseyjhand.com/mcp

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What the publisher says

From the Openfoodfacts repository's README, as published. We do not edit it. Read it on GitHub

@cyanheads/openfoodfacts-mcp-server Look up food products by barcode, search by ingredient or nutrition filter, compare products side-by-side, and browse the canonical tag vocabulary via MCP. STDIO or Streamable HTTP. 4 Tools

Public Hosted Server: https://openfoodfacts.caseyjhand.com/mcp

Overview

Food product data from Open Food Facts, a crowd-sourced database of 3M+ packaged food products. Look up items by barcode, search by text and nutrition/allergen/label tags, compare products side-by-side, and resolve everyday terms to the canonical tag vocabulary from any MCP client. Runs as a stdio process, a local Streamable HTTP server, or the public hosted endpoint above.

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Capability reference

offgetproduct tool

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.

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Openfoodfacts: common questions

Is Openfoodfacts MCP server safe?: Yes, by our scan: it is graded A (93/100). Read the Openfoodfacts safety report
How do I install Openfoodfacts?: It runs remotely at openfoodfacts.caseyjhand.com. Add it to Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code or Claude Desktop with the snippets above, or call it through the mcp.market gateway without installing anything.
Does Openfoodfacts need an API key?: No secret keys are declared. It reads 15 settings from the environment.
Is Openfoodfacts maintained?: The last commit was 42 days ago (2026-09-23). The latest release is v0.4.3.
Is Openfoodfacts up?: 100% of our last 28 checks got an answer. We check remote servers about four times a day.
What can I use instead of Openfoodfacts?: Servers from other publishers that do the same job: PostHog MCP Server, Loki Mode MCP server and New-Term Radar MCP server.
How does Openfoodfacts compare with other E-commerce MCP servers?: safety score 93/100 (higher than 95% of 2,174 E-commerce servers); uptime 100% (of our recent checks; the typical remote E-commerce server answers 100%); response time 506 ms (faster than 31% of 1,527 E-commerce servers). Full comparison.

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Rating: —
Safety grade: A · 93/100
Stars: 1
Downloads/wk: 348
Price: Free
Licence: Apache-2.0
Transport: Remote · mixed
Uptime: 100% · 28/28 checks
Version: 0.4.3
Category: E-commerce
Last release: 2026-09-23

Credentials it needs

OFF_BASE_URLOpen Food Facts API base URL override. Useful for testing against a mock server.
OFF_RATE_LIMIT_PRODUCTProduct read rate limit (requests/min). Matches the 15 req/min/IP Open Food Facts documents for product reads.
OFF_RATE_LIMIT_SEARCHSearch rate limit (requests/min).
OFF_RATE_LIMIT_TAXONOMYTaxonomy 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.
MCP_LOG_LEVELSets the minimum log level for output (e.g., 'debug', 'info', 'warn').
MCP_TRANSPORT_TYPESelects the HTTP transport.
OFF_BASE_URLOpen Food Facts API base URL override. Useful for testing against a mock server.
OFF_RATE_LIMIT_PRODUCTProduct read rate limit (requests/min). Matches the 15 req/min/IP Open Food Facts documents for product reads.
OFF_RATE_LIMIT_SEARCHSearch rate limit (requests/min).
OFF_RATE_LIMIT_TAXONOMYTaxonomy 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.
MCP_HTTP_HOSTThe hostname for the HTTP server.
MCP_HTTP_PORTThe port to run the HTTP server on.
MCP_HTTP_ENDPOINT_PATHThe endpoint path for the MCP server.
MCP_AUTH_MODEAuthentication mode to use: 'none', 'jwt', or 'oauth'.
MCP_LOG_LEVELSets the minimum log level for output (e.g., 'debug', 'info', 'warn').

Endpoint

https://openfoodfacts.caseyjhand.com/mcp

streamable-http

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