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

I couldn’t be bothered with it as I can read the list of ingredients on the back if I want to. I certainly wouldn’t be bothered reading the ingredients in hand cream. However if people like it and find it useful then that’s good.
We buy vegetables, meat etc and although they’re cook from scratch we don’t know what they’ve been sprayed with, fertilised with, injected with, unless we buy everything straight from the organic farmer.

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.

Definitely giving this a try. I'm both vegetarian and diabetic, so shopping takes an inordinate amount of time, reading all the labels. Especially as my eyesight is so poor these days. Some ingredients and dietary information lists are ridiculously tiny.

I find it helpful as it breaks down salt sugar and all sorts of things. It is not about good or bad food. It is about helping me make the right personal choice.

I posted because I thought it might help others. I cannot read the ingredients as they are too small.

You do not need to read the detail. if the list of ingredients goes over 3 lines, especially in small print, it is a UPF.

I picked up a quiche loraine when shopping today, looked at the 7 or 8 lines of ingredients, print too small to read any of them, clearly UPF so I put it back on the shelf and decided to buy eggs and make an omelette instead.

I use Yuka and OpenFoodFacts when I’m shopping, they’re not new. I don’t buy much ultra processed food and cook from scratch, but if I fancy chocolate it just takes a moment of scanning various barcodes to remind me I really don’t want it that badly! Also good for eg hand cream, not just foods.

I suppose using or not using the app will not be of great use to me to be honest as I do read all packets anyway, and 97% of the time I cook everything from fresh.... though I no longer make my own cheese crackers or regularly make my own mayonnaise!
Coincidentally, M0nica* we too ate through a small box of chocolate gingers the other evening the first chocs or sweets we had eaten since Christmas!

Monica it just is quicker in the shop and sometimes the writing is so small on packets that it is difficult to read.

Why do yu need an App? All you need to do is read the list of ingredients on a tin or packet to know whether it is processed it untra processed.

Anyway, there are no such things as healthy/unhealthy foods, only healthy/unhealthy diets.

Some one gave DH a box of choolate caramels last week. Probably defined as an 'unhealthy' food. We scoffed the lot, in one afternoon, BUT they were the first chocs or sweets we had eaten since Christmas, so highly unlikely to damage our health, given that we generally have a healthy diet with very little processed food.

But who decides what “health” means in terms of those foods? If its the food producing conglomerates then it would mean nothing.

Is it only able to understand mass-market products or is it good on more niche items?

I ask as there's an app that does this for cosmetics and shampoos etc - but it wasn't very good on my products.

Sounds good.

Trouble is, at the moment, DH seems to have gone off vegetables, in particular. Even fresh meat to a certain extent. He has never done that before. So I am having to cook or buy alternative food for him.

There is also an app Open Food Facts which does the same and tells you if it is processed or ultra processed.