Open Food Facts MCP Server

Search and contribute to the Open Food Facts database. Its 9 documented tools cover product, products, image, api. It runs locally over stdio via the published package.

People who work with product, products and image and want it reachable from Claude, Cursor, VS Code, or another MCP client. The project is written in TypeScript.

VERIFIED ACTIVE

LAST COMMIT 2026-09-09 · ★ 3 · #90 OF 168 MAINTAINED DATABASE · VERIFIED 2026-09-18

MIT · TypeScript servers · how we verify → /methodology

01 · Install Open Food Facts

Claude Code

claude mcp add domdomegg-openfoodfacts-mcp -- npx -y openfoodfacts-mcp

Claude Desktop / Cursor / VS Code - add to config

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "domdomegg-openfoodfacts-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "openfoodfacts-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Same JSON for Cursor. For VS Code, rename the top-level key from `mcpServers` to `servers`.

Using another client? Same JSON, different key

Claude Desktop · mcpServers

Cursor · mcpServers

VS Code · servers

Windsurf · mcpServers

Zed · context_servers

Cline · mcpServers

Roo Code · mcpServers

Continue · mcpServers

LibreChat · mcpServers

Gemini CLI · mcpServers

Codex CLI · mcp_servers

Full setup guides: every client.

02 · Evidence

Security posture

What to check before giving this server access to your agent - from the registry, GitHub, and our own probes. We don't score safety; we show what's verifiable.

runs as local process (stdio) - runs on your machine with your user's permissions

license MIT - declared in the repository

npm package openfoodfacts-mcp - unscoped; check the name against the project README before installing

registry namespace io.github.domdomegg is GitHub-verified and matches the repo owner

03 · What Open Food Facts can do

Prose above is summarized from the project's README and registry record - no invented capabilities.

What you can build

With this server connected, an agent can get product info by barcode, search with structured filters (brand, category, Nutri-Score), search with Lucene syntax, negation, and boolean logic, and add or update a product.

Capability map

Tools grouped from the project's README - what Open Food Facts lets an agent do.

Product

2 tools - e.g. Get product info by barcode; Add or update a product

get_product · add_or_edit_product

Products

2 tools - e.g. Search with structured filters (brand, category, Nutri-Score); Search with Lucene syntax, negation, and boolean logic

search_products_standard · search_products_lucene

Api

2 tools - e.g. Call any OFF API endpoint directly; Get OFF API documentation

call_api · get_api_docs

Autocomplete

1 tool - e.g. Autocomplete brands, categories, labels, etc.

autocomplete

create & write

1 tool - e.g. Upload a product image

upload_image

Select

1 tool - e.g. Select, crop, and rotate an image

select_image

Latest releases

v2.6.0 · 2026-07-09

Bump minimatch from 3.1.2 to 3.1.5 · Bump vite from 7.1.11 to 7.3.2 · Bump rollup from 4.46.2 to 4.60.2 · Bump picomatch · Bump path-to-regexp from 8.3.0 to 8.4.0 · Bump flatted from 3.3.3 to 3.4.2 · Bump postcss from…

v2.5.1 · 2026-03-11

v2.5.0 · 2026-03-09

04 · Who maintains Open Food Facts

Open Food Facts is maintained by domdomegg. We track 17 MCP servers from domdomegg - 17 actively maintained, 886 combined GitHub stars, oldest repo from Dec 2024. Full record: all servers from domdomegg.

05 · Facts

repository: github.com/domdomegg/openfoodfacts-mcp
website: https://github.com/domdomegg/openfoodfacts-mcp#readme
category: database - ranked #90 of 168 actively-maintained database servers as of 2026-09-18.
release cadence: 1 release in the last 90 days (latest 2026-07-09)
registry: io.github.domdomegg/openfoodfacts-mcp (active, first published 2026-02-18 · 14 versions)
packages: npm:openfoodfacts-mcp · npm:openfoodfacts-mcp

06 · Open Food Facts FAQ

Is Open Food Facts still maintained?

Yes - as of 2026-09-18, its last commit was 2026-09-09 and it shipped 1 release in the last 90 days. We re-verify nightly.

What can Open Food Facts do?

How do I install Open Food Facts?

Run `npx -y openfoodfacts-mcp`. You can also paste the ready-made client config above.

Does Open Food Facts run locally?

Yes - it's a stdio server: it runs on your machine (via npx) with your user's permissions. Your data stays local unless the server itself calls external APIs.

07 · Alternatives to Open Food Facts

Alternatives to Open Food Facts

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