A free, open, community-driven food nutrition database. Completely standalone — no accounts, no tracking, just food facts.
Search for any food to see nutrition data from the hub.
This hub stores only public product facts — names, brands, barcodes, and nutrition info. No user data, no accounts, no tracking, no cookies. What you eat stays encrypted on your Shizume instance.
When Shizume users scan a barcode that doesn’t exist in external databases, they can enter the info manually and opt to share it here. Every contribution helps the next person.
Shizume instances can subscribe to each other and to this hub, creating a decentralized network of food data. Any instance can export the full database for local import.
All read endpoints are public with no authentication required. Search by name, look up by barcode, or export the entire database as JSON. Rate limited to 120 requests/min.
Barcode scan on your phone:
Text search:
Your food diary entries are always end-to-end encrypted. The server never sees what you eat. Only public product facts (nutrition labels) are shared to the community database when you explicitly opt in.
Search foods by name or brand. Returns up to 50 results.
Look up a food product by its barcode (UPC/EAN). Returns 404 if not found.
Database statistics: total foods, foods with barcodes, verified count.
Export the full database as JSON for local import into your instance.
Submit a new food entry or update an existing one (matched by barcode).
Requires X-API-Key header