Hybrid

openfoodfacts-mcp-server

Barcode lookup, nutrition search, and product comparison for 3M+ crowd-sourced food products.

io.github.cyanheads/openfoodfacts-mcp-serverSource repository

Version0.4.1latest catalog version

ConnectionHybridstreamable-http · npm

PublishedOct 31, 2026catalog

UpdatedOct 31, 2026catalog

Overview

What this server provides

Barcode lookup, nutrition search, and product comparison for 3M+ crowd-sourced food products.

Connect

Remote endpoint 1streamable-http

https://openfoodfacts.caseyjhand.com/mcp

Install

Package 1npm

@cyanheads/openfoodfacts-mcp-server0.4.1

Runtime npxTransport stdio

OFF_BASE_URL
Open Food Facts API base URL override. Useful for testing against a mock server.
Format: string · Default: https://world.openfoodfacts.org
Optional
OFF_RATE_LIMIT_PRODUCT
Product read rate limit (requests/min). Matches the 15 req/min/IP Open Food Facts documents for product reads.
Format: string · Default: 15
Optional
OFF_RATE_LIMIT_SEARCH
Search rate limit (requests/min).
Format: string · Default: 10
Optional
OFF_RATE_LIMIT_TAXONOMY
Taxonomy resolution rate limit (requests/min). Applies to the live tag-vocabulary lookups off_browse_taxonomy makes, to tag-value resolution on text searches, and to checking allergen and trace exclusions on every search; a spent budget falls back to the offline sample, or to the tag value as normalized, rather than failing, except that an exclusion it could not check is refused as retryable.
Format: string · Default: 10
Optional
MCP_LOG_LEVEL
Sets the minimum log level for output (e.g., 'debug', 'info', 'warn').
Format: string · Default: info
Optional

Package 2npm

@cyanheads/openfoodfacts-mcp-server0.4.1

Runtime npxTransport streamable-http

http://localhost:3010/mcp

OFF_BASE_URL
Open Food Facts API base URL override. Useful for testing against a mock server.
Format: string · Default: https://world.openfoodfacts.org
Optional
OFF_RATE_LIMIT_PRODUCT
Product read rate limit (requests/min). Matches the 15 req/min/IP Open Food Facts documents for product reads.
Format: string · Default: 15
Optional
OFF_RATE_LIMIT_SEARCH
Search rate limit (requests/min).
Format: string · Default: 10
Optional
OFF_RATE_LIMIT_TAXONOMY
Taxonomy resolution rate limit (requests/min). Applies to the live tag-vocabulary lookups off_browse_taxonomy makes, to tag-value resolution on text searches, and to checking allergen and trace exclusions on every search; a spent budget falls back to the offline sample, or to the tag value as normalized, rather than failing, except that an exclusion it could not check is refused as retryable.
Format: string · Default: 10
Optional
MCP_HTTP_HOST
The hostname for the HTTP server.
Format: string · Default: 127.0.0.1
Optional
MCP_HTTP_PORT
The port to run the HTTP server on.
Format: string · Default: 3010
Optional
MCP_HTTP_ENDPOINT_PATH
The endpoint path for the MCP server.
Format: string · Default: /mcp
Optional
MCP_AUTH_MODE
Authentication mode to use: 'none', 'jwt', or 'oauth'.
Format: string · Default: none
Optional
MCP_LOG_LEVEL
Sets the minimum log level for output (e.g., 'debug', 'info', 'warn').
Format: string · Default: info
Optional

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