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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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Please add automatic detection of table salt. #2185

Closed Slawek234 closed 5 years ago

Slawek234 commented 5 years ago

Please add automatic detection of table salt in food products.

Table salt - NaCl, sodium chloride is a frequent food additive. I think that the information about additional addition of this substance to the product should appear. Examples:

aleene commented 5 years ago

Salt is not a regulated food additive and has no E-number, so it will not appear in the list.

aleene commented 5 years ago

Or do you think of a special warning if the product has a lot of salt?

Slawek234 commented 5 years ago

Indeed, sodium chloride is not on the list of additives E. I mean, as one of the food additives.

Slawek234 commented 5 years ago

Or do you think of a special warning if the product has a lot of salt?

The salt content is contained in Nutrition facts.

teolemon commented 5 years ago

We have several traffic lights to deal with this https://world.openfoodfacts.org/nutrient-levels image