generated: '2026-09-17'
method: searched
source: https://static.openfoodfacts.org/data/taxonomies/
provider: Open Food Facts
providerId: open-food-facts
description: >-
  Open Food Facts publishes its controlled vocabularies — the taxonomies that normalise categories,
  ingredients, labels, additives, allergens, countries, brands and nutrients across every language — as
  public JSON files. They are the canonical term lists behind every tag in the product API, and they are
  editable by the community through the project's Taxonomy Editor.
format: json
license:
  name: Open Database License (ODbL)
  url: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/
editor: https://github.com/openfoodfacts/taxonomy-editor
taxonomies:
  - name: categories
    url: https://static.openfoodfacts.org/data/taxonomies/categories.json
    http_status: 200
    bytes: 4667328
  - name: ingredients
    url: https://static.openfoodfacts.org/data/taxonomies/ingredients.json
    http_status: 200
    bytes: 3332299
  - name: labels
    url: https://static.openfoodfacts.org/data/taxonomies/labels.json
    http_status: 200
    bytes: 1178783
  - name: additives
    url: https://static.openfoodfacts.org/data/taxonomies/additives.json
    http_status: 200
    bytes: 905999
  - name: countries
    url: https://static.openfoodfacts.org/data/taxonomies/countries.json
    http_status: 200
    bytes: 721532
  - name: nutrients
    url: https://static.openfoodfacts.org/data/taxonomies/nutrients.json
    http_status: 200
    bytes: 166378
  - name: brands
    url: https://static.openfoodfacts.org/data/taxonomies/brands.json
    http_status: 200
    bytes: 97883
  - name: allergens
    url: https://static.openfoodfacts.org/data/taxonomies/allergens.json
    http_status: 200
    bytes: 10168
api_access:
  - operationId: get-api-v3-taxonomy-canonicalize-tags
    description: Resolve local-language tags to canonical taxonomy identifiers.
  - operationId: get-api-v3-taxonomy-display-tags
    description: Render canonical taxonomy identifiers in a chosen display language.
  - operationId: get-api-v3-taxonomy_suggestions-taxonomy
    description: Suggest taxonomy entries for an in-progress term.
note: >-
  The directory index at https://static.openfoodfacts.org/data/taxonomies/ returns 403; each individual
  taxonomy file is served publicly and each URL above was probed on 2026-09-17.