Hi! I’ve known about the project for a while now, but never introduced
myself here. I think it is an amazing initiative! Kudos to everyone
involved in making this happen! 
I have some time now to tinker around with ideas related to this project
and wonder: Are there any internal or derived tools to perform semantic
search, or RAG based on the contents of off?
Any insights will be appreciated 
Welcome to the community!
Not that I know of 
We have search.openfoodfacts.org, which uses ElasticSearch under the hood, but no RAG pipeline AFAIK.
Maybe it would be useful to create some kind of MCP server to search the DB instead of a RAG in our case?
I came across this project, which is made by of one of our 2025 GSoC contributors.
I think he would be really interested in having some feedback!
Oh, the MCP project is interesting! I’ll take a look
What I had in mind was oriented toward allowing people to find a specific food by describing it using completely unrelated words. Moreover perhaps describe a more complex dish (i.e a recipe), and obtain a list of foods that composes it.
Those feel like useful features for users, and making a MVP of that wouln’t be too complicated. But in order to have a functioning version of it requires a slightly complex (and potentially costly) infrastructure. So that’s currently discouraging me to put more effort in this project.
I wondered if there was an already operative initiative that might have a suitable infrastructure to put something like this to work