Self-hosted / open sourcePersonal Health & DNAHeadquarters: FR

Open Food Facts: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Open Food Facts is a free, open and collaboratively built database of food products from around the world. Volunteers add products by scanning barcodes and uploading label photos, and entries include ingredients, allergens and nutrition facts. The website helps users interpret labels and nutrition scores, and the data can be reused under an open licence.

The service is run by Open Food Facts, a French loi 1901 non-profit association based in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, near Paris. It has no commercial owner or shareholders, and the project is carried by volunteers. The database is published under the Open Database License and the server software under AGPL-3.0. The website does not state where its servers are located. For a European organisation, the association is established in the EU and the data remains available under an open licence.

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Sovereignty score

94 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-2100
Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
Data residency SOV-3100
EU-only hosting
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-390
Self-hostable: encryption keys under your own control
Freedom from lock-in SOV-680
Open source: low switching costs
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-6100
Source code auditable, forkable and self-hostable

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 12, 2026

Headquarters	FR (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Open-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hosting	EUVerified by hand
Open-source	YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	NoVendor-stated
Category	Personal Health & DNA
Type	Product
Website	world.openfoodfacts.org ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Open Food Facts

The European alternatives to Open Food Facts come from our knowledge base of over 8,000 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Open Food Facts

Open Food Facts is headquartered in FR and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so Open Food Facts scores best on data residency.

Open Food Facts is open source. You can audit the source code, self-host the software and keep the encryption keys under your own control. Switching is easier because data and software are not tied to a single party.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Open Food Facts together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Open Food Facts?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Open Food Facts include 24Genetics, 7Mind and Aware. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Open Food Facts?

Our list of EU alternatives to Open Food Facts is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is Open Food Facts GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Open Food Facts is headquartered in FR (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes Open Food Facts an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on October 12, 2026.

Sources

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Compliance evidence

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