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Open Food Facts database, API server and web interface - 🐪🦋 Perl, CSS and JS coders welcome 😊 For helping in Python, see Robotoff or taxonomy-editor
http://openfoodfacts.github.io/openfoodfacts-server/
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Locale dependent nutritional values #1137

Open aleene opened 6 years ago

aleene commented 6 years ago

A follow up on #1132. For products that are not specifically created for Hong Kong, another issue arises. These are products that are importd from the US, Australia or Europe. It seems to be required to add a sticker with the nutritional values in HK-style. Most of the time these stickers are put over the original nutritional values. However the sticker can be removed, or the sticker has been put in another location. Thus we have two sets of nutritional values for the same language (english and english/chinese). OFF does not handle this situation.

stephanegigandet commented 6 years ago

The nutritional values are the same, right? You can add different nutrition facts images, depending on language.

aleene commented 6 years ago

The import-label has more values per serving. HK has less per 100 g. So one could peel away the HK-labels and enter the import ones. Unless it is an EU-label where HK has added the trans fats.

In the short term this is a solution, but in the longer term you want to accommodate HK and US/EU.

aleene commented 6 years ago

Issue is that the sticker can not always be removed. So what values people enter depends on where they are located.