Developer builds free nutrition API using Open Food Facts database

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A developer has created a nutrition API to address the lack of accessible food data for app projects. The API packages Open Food Facts' database of over 3 million products into a REST API available on RapidAPI. It offers two main endpoints: product search by name and detailed nutrition lookup by barcode. The service includes a free tier for testing and aims to help developers building food, fitness, and diet applications.

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