Pick a real product and see what three food databases actually return for it: ingredients, allergens, intolerances, halal, kosher and vegan flags, label claims and nutrition. Every response was fetched on 2026-11-09.
26 / 26products found in NutriGraphAPI10.0 of 10 data categories on average, about 102 data points per product
9 / 26found in Open Food Facts by barcode (8 with an ingredient list)1.6 of 10 categories on average, about 21 data points per product
12 / 26confident FatSecret matches by name0.7 of 10 categories on average, about 3 data points per product
What each source gives you for this product
Ten kinds of data a food app, retailer or researcher usually needs. A tick means it is in the response, a half tick means partly, a dash means not returned.
The actual responses
Each box scrolls. NutriGraphAPI shows its public fields; Open Food Facts shows the consumer-relevant fields of the real record; FatSecret shows its full search result.
NutriGraphAPI public fields of the response
Looked up by barcode
Open Food Facts real record, by barcode
FatSecret full search result, by name
Coverage in this sample
Provider
Products found
Ingredient list
Allergen, halal, kosher, vegan flags
NutriGraphAPI
26 of 26
26 of 26
All 26 (diet and religious flags inferred)
Open Food Facts by barcode
9 of 26
8 of 26
Partly, where tags exist
FatSecret by name
12 of 26
0 of 26
Not in the response
What this shows, and what it does not
The 26 products were chosen from our own database, which skews to US supermarket items. This is a coverage sample of our database, not a ranking of the three services. The category and data-point averages cover all 26 products and count a missing record as zero, so they reflect coverage of this sample, not the overall quality of any service.
FatSecret was matched by product name and each match was checked by hand; it is shown only when the product is the same item, otherwise the pane says no confident match (FatSecret may still list a different size or flavour). A FatSecret plan with barcode access could match more.
Open Food Facts records hold many more fields than shown here. We omit images, packaging, system and translation fields; nutrition, ingredient, allergen, label and score fields are kept as returned.
NutriGraphAPI also returns more fields than the public ones shown. We leave out raw source data and internal processing details.
Product images: NutriGraphAPI images come from retailer product listings and belong to their owners; Open Food Facts images are CC BY-SA by Open Food Facts contributors. Brand and product images appear for identification and comparison only.
Halal, kosher, Jain, Hindu, vegan and similar flags are inferred from the ingredient list. They are not certifications. Check the package.
Nutri-Score, NOVA and EcoScore values are estimates from label data, not official grades.
Open Food Facts data is available under the ODbL licence; some NutriGraphAPI ingredient and nutrition values originate there. Product and brand names belong to their owners and appear for identification only.
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