# Suverse Food Barcode Lookup

> Suverse Food Barcode Lookup is a paid API for AI agents from proxy.suverse.io, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-16).

Look up a food product by barcode to retrieve its name, brand, ingredients, nutrition grade, and Nutri-Score from Open Food Facts.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://proxy.suverse.io/v1/data/suverse-food-barcode
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-16
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/suverse-food-barcode-lookup-ae0abaa4
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_ZdXhwmv5gI1ST8IbmEdLz

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability suverse-food-barcode-lookup-ae0abaa4 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you look up the food product with barcode 3017620422003 and tell me its name, brand, ingredients, and Nutri-Score?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need keyless, no-auth barcode-to-nutrition lookups powered by Open Food Facts for nutrition, grocery, or health applications. It is ideal for AI agents that need to identify food products and surface Nutri-Score or ingredient data without managing API keys. Prefer this over direct Open Food Facts calls when operating in an x402 micropayment environment.

## Known failure modes

- Barcode not found in Open Food Facts database — returns empty or null product data
- Malformed or invalid barcode format — request rejected or no match returned
- Open Food Facts upstream unavailable — proxy may return error or timeout
- Product exists but has incomplete data — some fields (e.g. ingredients) may be missing or null

## How this service works

Look up a food product by barcode from Open Food Facts, no key. Returns product name, brand, ingredients, nutrition grade, and Nutri-Score. For AI agents in nutrition, grocery, and health apps.

## Output

Returns structured product data from Open Food Facts including product name, brand, list of ingredients, nutrition grade (letter A–E), and Nutri-Score value for the scanned barcode.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method",
    "bodyType",
    "body"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "body": {
     "properties": {}
    },
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "POST",
      "PUT",
      "PATCH"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "bodyType": {
     "enum": [
      "json",
      "form-data",
      "text"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/suverse-food-barcode-lookup-ae0abaa4/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from proxy.suverse.io](https://www.zero.xyz/host/proxy.suverse.io/llms.txt)