Open Food Facts - Product Scan 4+

Nutri-Score, Eco-Score & more

Open Food Facts

Designed for iPad

    • 4.7 • 340 Ratings
    • Free

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Description

News: We invented the collaborative scanning app in 2012. As we turn 10, we’re reinventing it from the ground up!

This app lets you find food that's good for you and good for the planet by scanning their barcodes.
You will get personalized health & eco-impact info for 2.3M foods.

Set your food preferences without ruining your privacy
A scan that truly matches who you are
Green: the product matches your criteria
Red: there is a problem
Gray: Help us answer you by photographing the products

Compare in a few seconds those 3 different tomato sauces left on the shelf.
Get a tailored comparison of any food category

Food criteria you can pick

Environment
Health
Additives & Ultra processed foods
Salt
Allergens
Nutri-Score
Eco-Score

Scan, find & compare more than 2,3 million food products

Choose products that are good for you

- The Nutri-Score grade, from A to E : Nutritional quality
- The NOVA group, from 1 to 4 : Avoid ultra-processed foods (Group 4)

Choose products that are good the planet

- Food causes over 1/3 of global greenhouse gas emissions
- The Eco-Score grade, from A to E : a synthesis of 16 environmental impacts

Contribute to Food Transparency

- Open Food Facts is made by everyone, for everyone!
- In short, we're "the Wikipedia of food", as the press nicknamed the project. Open Food Facts has also enabled the creation of over 150+ apps like Date Limite, Yuka or FoodVisor.
- Use it to make better food choices
- The app is also collaborative. If the product is missing, contribute pictures and data to get the Nutri-Score, food processing level (NOVA) and Eco-Score.
- Make a difference today by photographing a product from your kitchen.
- Open Food Facts is a non-profit project made by thousands of volunteers from around the world. Why don't you join us ?

Decipher food labels

We decipher products labels for you. You'll find:
- Nutrition: The Nutriscore (nutritional score), nutrients, fat, transfat, carbohydrates, sugars, fiber, protein, salt & sodium.
- Environment: The Ecoscore (including carbon footprint (CO2 emissions), packaging (as well as recycling instructions), environmental labels (organic, quality etc.), and origins of ingredients)
- Other: brands, allergens, labels (bio, gluten free, vegan, vegetarian, halal, kosher...), traceability information (packaging codes, origins, food factories)
- On wines and beers, you'll find the alcohol content.

Our grades are science-based, and Open Food Facts is helping science!
- We don't make up things. We rely on peer-reviewed science.
- The Nutri-Score has been created by the independent French team led by Professor Hercberg.
- The NOVA groups on food processing have been designed by the international team of Professor Monteiro.
- The additives synthesis is based on reviews by EFSA on exposure levels on food additives.
- The Eco-Score is based on ground breaking data by ADEME, the French environmental agency, adapted for the world.
- The Open Food Facts community is collaborating with research teams across the planet for research that benefits all.

Your food, your data. Privacy-friendly app.
- You can use the app anonymously
- Your food data is yours, and is never sent online

Set up allergen alerts on products

- Do you have a Milk, Gluten, Eggs, Soybeans, Nuts, Fish, Celery, Mustard, Sulphites, Peanuts, Sesame seeds, Crustaceans, Molluscs or Lupin allergy ?
- Speed up your shopping with an initial screening with Open Food Facts.
- Be careful that the info and the detection may not be 100% accurate. Always double check by yourself, with the packaging.

More

Web version: https://world.openfoodfacts.org
Questions, feedback : mobile@openfoodfacts.org

For cosmetics, you can install Open Beauty Facts.

What’s New

Version 4.17

We have accelerated the app !
New features:
- Improvements on price collection (Open Prices)
- Faster scan
- Fix for the onboarding
We look forward to hearing your feedback at mobile@openfoodfacts.org
https://github.com/openfoodfacts/smooth-app/releases

Ratings and Reviews

4.7 out of 5
340 Ratings

340 Ratings

bulletothehead ,

The best app if you’re going ultra-processed free

As some one who is beginning their journey to being 100% ultra process food free, this app is invaluable! I encourage others to catalogue any new products they encounter when shopping, it’s actually a lot of fun and quite educational!

JacquiKruz ,

Could be great

I’ve only just found out about and started using this app and I do think it could be excellent, especially given very real concerns about UPFs, additives etc. I’m quite careful anyway but with dragging my glasses out, squinting at tiny labels and reading through them in a busy supermarket is a real pain, let alone working out what is recyclable etc etc- sometimes you just don’t know.

Just for interest and practice I scanned a couple of items in my son’s kitchen, having set my preferences - including gluten content as I can’t eat it. Item two - big rookie error! App says a product is gluten free when it is not! App identified oats (the only cereal in the granola) as a gluten free item, presumably. Unless oats are specifically identified as gluten free oats they are not! Oats get cross contaminated in growing - alongside gluten containing cereals, or in processing alongside them.

This would be a big problem if a user used the app to buy and prepare food for a coeliac, especially if the user is not coeliac themselves, and the food item is served up as ‘GF, I checked’ without the packaging being present.

Also it’s an error in your analysis.

I would have preferred to notify developers directly but couldn’t find a way of doing so. I hope you are listening.

MarvoGing ,

Could be great

This could be great. An app like this is needed. However not many products were recognised here in the UK. Also even ‘clean’ foods were marked as ultra processed. I wanted to contribute information to help the app but was unable to complete the sign in process.
I think the product information could be better represented so that more people could make useful sense of it. Good luck!

App Privacy

The developer, Open Food Facts, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Data Not Linked to You

The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

  • Diagnostics

Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More

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