About FoodScreener

FoodScreener is an app to help you eat according to your preferences and values. Scan barcodes, check ingredients, and screen for dietary needs.

How to Use

Scan a barcode or search for a product. View instant results based on your preferences.

Acknowledgements: Data sources and Licenses

Data sources: Open Food Facts. Licenses: We thank the volunteers and users at Open Food Facts for the crowdsourced product data. Contains information from Open Food Facts at OpenFoodFacts.org via HuggingFace, which is made available here under the Open Database License (ODbL). Contents of Open Food facts database are used under Database Contents License (DbCL) v1.0. Images are used under Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0). Authors and attributions of the images are typically included in the photo’s metadata. The Open Food Facts database is available under the Open Database License. The individual contents of the database are available under the Database Contents License. Product images are available under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike license. They may contain graphical elements subject to copyright or other rights that may, in some cases, be reproduced (quotation rights or fair use).

None of the data this app provides should be completely relied on for making critical choices; for example, allergen data for life-threatening allergies should be double-checked on labels, and kosher and halal certifications are rarely included in the Open Food Facts database. Always consult your doctors, dietitians, and religious authorities on matters of great importance. And nothing is this app should be construed to be dietetic or medical advice.

Privacy Policy

Your data and preferences are stored securely. We do not sell or share your information. We may gather statistics and use anonymized aggregate data for use in improving the app. We will only contact you via email with important product updates, which will be rare.

Website

Visit FoodScreener.org for more info, support, and updates.

Health Links

For dietary and nutrition advice, consult a licensed professional. Our web site FoodScreener.org will eventually include trustworthy links for your own research.

Contact Us

While the Open Food Facts database is quite comprehensive in the US and France, it may be less thorough elsewhere. As a crowdsourced database, it is sometimes inaccurate either because the data reporter entered data incorrectly or reported the wrong units. Also, manufacturers change their products slightly and update the labels but retain the old barcode, which means the database contains outdated information for that product.

While there are other commercial food databases, we would have to charge a monthly subscription fee to bring them to you.