New free app check the health of your food by scanning the bar code.

I have tried Yuka and found some anomalies - for instance I scanned two equally organic items by Crazy Jack and one came out as really good and the other came out as bad! Also if you look for alternative 'good' products it is not easy to use in my experience. It is a good idea and I am sure does some good things, but I am now using the NHS app for food - not sure what to go to for toiletries and cleaning things.

Applegran

Sounds really useful! Thank you. I will give one or the other app a try. Processed food does seem to be a real health hazard, and over time could shorten your healthy life - as well as your overall life expectancy. I'm a vegetarian and rarely eat processed food (but do sometimes) and need to be vigilant.

Vegetarian food isn't necessarily unprocessed. In fact, many meat alternatives are processed and vegetarian ready meals include some of the most ultra-processed foods in any supernarket.

Life's too short...

Could be even shorter without using the tools available to help me make the right choices. I am too skinny, have high blood pressure and arthritis. I agree that a lot of healthy eating is common sense.

For me it just helps me understand a little more about what I eat. Particularly the salt content. I don’t necessarily want to live longer, but I do want my remaining time to be as comfortable and pain free as possible.

It could be useful in that it might stop DH complaining that I take too long shopping
"What are you staring at?"
"I'm reading the labels"

Most packaged foods have the colour coded nutritional info, much quicker and easier to see a if there is a red on salt, sugar or fat.

littleflo

Could be even shorter without using the tools available to help me make the right choices. I am too skinny, have high blood pressure and arthritis. I agree that a lot of healthy eating is common sense.

For me it just helps me understand a little more about what I eat. Particularly the salt content. I don’t necessarily want to live longer, but I do want my remaining time to be as comfortable and pain free as possible.

I think I'm perfectly capable of making the right choices without all that palaver, thank you very much indeed.

TBH the majority of the food I buy is unprocessed, so I wouldn’t bother. I’d be interested to know, though, what would be its healthy alternative suggestion for our occasional fresh jam doughnuts? 😂

I am with you Missinterpreted. There is so much information about good nutrition out there, ut should be easy to tell broadly where a food stuff lies on the nutrition spectrum.

Personally, I do not think micro adjusting your diet makes any difference to health or longevity. It is the long term basic foodstuffs based diet/mediterranean diet wot does it.

An American food writer, Michael Pollen came up with the easiast way to judge whether food is good for you or likely to be harmful. He said

If it is made from a plant, eat it. If it was made in a plant, don't

Works because the US word for a 'factory' is a 'plant'.

It's the mantra that governs my eating patterns - and so far, it has worked very well.

Meat is made from plants.

Just saying ☺️

Unless it's from a carnivorous animal of course.

But, ultimately, it will be made from plants

Baggs exactly. There are very few examples of human's eating carnivores - dogs, possibly, in some Asian countries.

Thanks for that littleflo I’ve just downloaded it,I’m sure I will find it useful…

I’ve used yuka app for few years it’s not new but it is brilliant when I first got it I went through my kitchen cupboards and scanned everything then went onto the shampoos and make up . Told my friends about it years ago and we all got it