Data sources
Where our product information comes from
Open Food Facts
Most product information in Nutivio (names, brands, ingredients, nutrition tables, allergens, categories, NOVA groups and photos) comes from Open Food Facts, a free, open database of food products built by volunteers around the world.
- Database
- Made available under the Open Database Licence (ODbL) v1.0. Individual contents are under the Database Contents Licence.
- Product photos
- Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) by their Open Food Facts contributors.
Nutivio is independent of Open Food Facts, which does not endorse Nutivio or its scores.
Nutivio corrections
When a report or our own checks show something is wrong, such as a mistyped sugar value, our team records a correction.
- The source is never overwritten. Corrections are stored separately and applied on top, so the original data is always kept alongside them.
- Every correction is recorded. Each one is logged, and the app shows where each product’s information came from and when it was last updated.
- Scores follow the facts. If a correction changes nutrition values, the score is recalculated automatically. A correction never changes the scoring rules.
Spotted a mistake?
Recipes and packaging change, and a database can lag behind the shelf. The label on the pack always wins, especially for allergens.
- Open the product in the app, from Scan or History.
- Scroll to the bottom and choose Report a problem.
- Say what’s wrong, for example “Sugars are 12 g per 100 g on the pack, not 21 g”.
- Send it. You’ll get a reference number starting with NTV, and our team reviews every report.
You can also improve the data for everyone by editing the product directly on openfoodfacts.org. Changes there reach Nutivio when the product is next refreshed. Read how scoring works to see how the data is used.