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Know what's inside,
before you buy it.

640,000 packaged products decoded against 9+ certification registers and a 43-entry additive index — plus a label analyser for everything else.

Open the camera Type a barcode Paste a label
Grading standard
Borderline ingredients are judged against the school of thought you pick. Prohibited items are never reclassified.
Camera

Point it at the packet

Live barcode and QR scanning in the browser, using the device's own detector — no upload, no third-party service, nothing leaves the phone until a code is actually read.

Camera off. Start it and hold a barcode or QR code in the frame.

Reads appear here.
Live lookup

Scan a barcode

Type or paste any barcode. Every sample below is a real record in the demo database.

Live scan
Highstreet Butter Shortbread 300g
Highstreet · United Kingdom
Doubtful — Review needed
1 ingredient could not be traced to a source
75%
Confidence
4 clear 1 doubtful 0 prohibited
Wheat flourNot present in the additive index — nothing to flag. Not indexed
ButterNot present in the additive index — nothing to flag. Not indexed
SugarNot present in the additive index — nothing to flag. Not indexed
SaltNot present in the additive index — nothing to flag. Not indexed
Mono- and diglyceridesThe single most common ambiguous additive in packaged food. Plant or animal fat
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Barcode
5051234567895
Certificate
None on file
Record updated
14 Jul 2026

Graded on the Standard setting. Unconfirmed items are flagged as doubtful for you to judge.

For everything not in the database

Paste the ingredients panel

Type the label out, or paste it from the maker's website. Each ingredient is matched against the additive index and graded on its own line.

Your line-by-line breakdown appears here.

Additive index

The numbers behind the label

Where the additives in our index originate. The ambiguous slice is what the scanner exists to catch.

61%
Plant
derived
21%
Synthetic /
mineral
9%
Microbial /
fermented
6%
Animal
derived
3%
Source
ambiguous
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