SyncVentura
ZutatenKlar
Our fourth Shopify app handles the mandatory food information under the EU Food Information Regulation (Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011).
- Type
- Public Shopify app, own product
- Services
- Shopify apps, Backend and databases
- Status
- In development, built and tested
- Data source
- Open Food Facts (ODbL licence), kept as our own copy on our server
Spelt hazelnut biscuits, 200 g
Ingredients: Spelt wholemeal flour (52%), cane sugar, butter, hazelnuts (8%), eggs, sea saltArt. 21
Nutrition declaration per 100 gArt. 30
| Energy | 1998 kJ / 477 kcal |
|---|---|
| Fat | 22 g |
| of which saturates | 10 g |
| Carbohydrate | 58 g |
| of which sugars | 21 g |
| Protein | 8.9 g |
| Salt | 0.4 g |
Starting point
Anyone selling food online must show the same mandatory information before purchase that is on the packaging (Article 14 of the regulation). Shopify has no fixed fields for it: ingredients, allergens and nutrition values end up in the product description, typed by hand and structured differently for each product.
Solution
ZutatenKlar finds ingredients, allergens and nutrition values in Open Food Facts, by barcode or by name and brand. The merchant checks the suggestion against the packaging, adds what is missing and approves. A theme block shows the information consistently on the product page.
Features
What ZutatenKlar does for merchants.
Suggestions from Open Food Facts
By barcode or by name and brand – the merchant reviews and approves.
Allergens emphasised
The 14 allergens in Annex II, also in “wheat flour”, not in “coconut milk”.
Gaps per food product
What is still missing under Article 9, with the exemptions of the regulation.
Nutrition table
In the order of the regulation, per 100 g or 100 ml.
Seven languages
The block uses the official terms of each language version.
Food business operator
Per product or assigned automatically by supplier.
Technical implementation
- Built on our own Shopify app foundation: billing, privacy webhooks, large-store mode and operations were in place from day one.
- Open Food Facts as our own copy: loaded monthly and searchable with a full-text index – no requests to third-party servers, no product data leaves the server.
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