Open Data Downloads
The datasets behind this site, published as bulk files with their provenance, data vintage and a ready-made citation. Everything here is licensed CC BY 4.0: reuse it, including commercially, as long as you attribute PlainFoodSafe and the upstream sources.
Open Food Facts Release Changes
97,280 product-level changes between the Open Food Facts releases of 2026-03-12 and 2026-07-31, with the PlainFoodSafe ingredient-flag score on both sides of each change.
Most Common Food Additives in US Products
Additives ranked by how many US packaged-food products contain them. Citric Acid leads at 91,634 products, computed over 894,137 catalogued products.
US Grocery Category Safety Scores
Average ingredient-flag score and flagged-product share across the 8 largest grocery categories. Sweet snacks scores lowest at 79.6/100.
Looking for the per-product view instead? Every product, brand and ingredient page carries its own sources and data vintage. See methodology for how the ingredient-flag score is built and what it does not measure.
What to do with these downloads
Choose the right evidence layer
Use a bulk download for a reproducible aggregate, then open a named record when the question concerns one package, ingredient, or brand.
- Start with the release-change file when you need to compare two retained Open Food Facts snapshots. Read the release-change documentation
- Use the category dataset for a catalogue pattern, then inspect its product or ingredient records before drawing a conclusion about one package. Explore category evidence
- Read the methodology before reusing a score, count, or source join outside this site. Review methodology
Downloads preserve the stated source, vintage, and catalogue boundary. They are not current label verification, recall notices, medical advice, or product-suitability determinations.