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Refining it at high heat leaves traces of two contaminants. One damages DNA and causes cancer in testing.
The UK app for calories, vitamins, workouts and fasting. Scan a barcode and it also reads the pack back to you: what has been added, what it does once it is in you, and who published the evidence.
Free to download. Pro is £3.99 a month. iPhone today, Android coming soon.
Pork (89%), Water, Salt, Preservatives (E250, E252), Antioxidant (E301), Sugar, Stabilisers (E451, E452).
Cures the meat and keeps it pink. Eating cured meat regularly causes bowel cancer, and the NHS caps processed meat at 70g a day.
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Preservative (E250). Colour (E150d). Both legal, both accurate, and neither one tells you a thing about what you are about to eat.
Processed meat causes bowel cancer. The World Health Organization said so in 2015 and the NHS caps it at 70g a day. Most people eating a bacon sandwich have been told neither.
So here is the rule we work to. We do not carry water for manufacturers. Where there is evidence you get it, and you get who published it. Where the science is not settled we say nothing at all, rather than tell you it is fine.
NutraSafe is a tracker, not a doctor. It shows you what is in your food and what you have eaten. It does not diagnose, and anything that needs a clinician goes to your GP.
Point the camera at a UK barcode. How processed it is, what has been added, and what the pack is not telling you, before you decide.
Branded or supermarket own-brand. If the barcode is in the food databases, the scanner reads it.
Tesco The Chicken Club Sandwich, as the app returns it
You have eaten things this week you could not name. NutraSafe names them, gathers them across your day, and says what each one does once it is in you.
No scare and no reassurance. Where there is published evidence you get it, and you get who published it.
Real entries from our additive database, with the plain-English line the app gives each one.
Refining it at high heat leaves traces of two contaminants. One damages DNA and causes cancer in testing.
Classed as a possible cause of liver cancer, on limited evidence in people. Anyone with PKU must avoid it, which is why packs name a source of phenylalanine.
It digests entirely to glucose, so blood sugar climbs quickly after eating it. It also counts as free sugar, which the NHS caps at about 30g a day for adults.
Chalk added to flour always carries a little aluminium. A review found this source alone can use up half to all of the weekly aluminium limit.
A synthetic deep-blue dye, added to ice cream, sweets and biscuits. No concern line on this one: where the evidence is not settled we leave it blank rather than fill it in.
Most people are short of something and never find out, because nothing they use tells them.
Log your food and you see which nutrients you genuinely get enough of and which ones you never reach. 13 vitamins and 12 minerals against the UK reference intakes, not the American ones. Supplements counted in, or taken back out, whichever you want to know.
Something you eat leaves you bloated, foggy or wiped out, and working out which thing on your own is next to impossible.
Log how you felt and NutraSafe lines that up against everything you ate. When a food keeps turning up, you cut it for a fortnight and find out. Then you can print the lot and take it to your GP.
Cheddar becomes a suspect. Oat milk doesn’t. Cheddar is on three off days and absent from three fine ones. Oat milk is on nearly everything, so it explains nothing. An example, not your diary.
Sets, reps, the weight you actually lifted, a rest timer running between them, and your heart rate off the Watch. It remembers what you did last time on every exercise and keeps your one-rep max.
16:8, 5:2, one meal a day, or a window of your own. Log something while a fast is running and it offers to end it there. Log inside your window and it offers to start tonight’s when you are done. You decide whether coffee breaks it.
It has already seen what you ate, what you lifted and how you felt afterwards, so you can ask why a week went the way it did instead of explaining yourself first. It can set a goal or draft a plan, and nothing saves until you tap confirm.
Why was last week so flat?
You trained on the three days you logged the least food, and your protein was under target on all three.
Type it, scan the barcode, or photograph the plate. We fill in the calories, macros, vitamins and additives.
Your diary, settings and history come back when you sign in. Nothing lives only on the handset.
Glasses against a daily goal, and your weight over time on the Progress tab.
Log a multivitamin that declares its panel and it adds to your totals. You can also read the day with the supplements taken back out.
Import one from a photo, a link, or by talking, then log a serving of it like any other food.
The Big 14 flagged in the ingredients we hold for that product. The pack is still the final word.
You scan a UK barcode and it reads the pack back to you: the additives by name and in plain English, the nutrition panel, and a score out of 100 with the reasons behind it. Log the food and it goes into a diary alongside your calories, macros, vitamins, minerals, workouts, fasting and how you felt afterwards.
The download is free. So is food logging up to 25 entries a day, the barcode scanner with the additive count, allergen flags on scans, and reaction logging while you build up a baseline. Pro is £3.99 a month or £34.99 a year and lifts those caps, names each additive and explains it, and adds the AI meal scan, the AI Coach, workouts, fasting, vitamin and mineral tracking against UK NRVs, and the suspected-trigger analysis.
If a UK barcode is in the food databases, the scanner reads it, branded or supermarket own-brand. The databases have gaps, and when you hit one you can add or report the food from inside the app rather than giving up on it.
13 vitamins and 12 minerals, measured against the UK Nutrient Reference Values rather than the US Daily Value, filled in as you log. That tracking is a Pro feature; free accounts see the panel locked.
It runs from 0 to 100 across five bands: Excellent from 75, Good 60 to 74, Fair 45 to 59, Poor 25 to 44, and Bad below 25. It reads the nutrition panel, the additives declared on the pack and how processed the food is. Tap the number and it lists the reasons it landed there. A whole food with no pack and no ingredients list does not get a score at all, because there is nothing to judge.
It flags the Big 14 UK allergens it can see in the ingredient data we hold, on every barcode scan, on the free tier. Read it as a prompt to check the pack, never as a clearance. We will not tell you an allergen is absent, because our data cannot prove that and the pack is always the final word.
Yes, and the HealthKit sync runs both ways: workouts and activity come in, and the food you log goes back out to Health. There is an Apple Watch app for logging workouts away from your phone.
Not yet. NutraSafe is iPhone only today, on iOS 17 or later. The Android build is in progress and there is a page where you can read where it has got to.
Yes, and that is the whole point of it. It reads your diary, your workouts and your logged reactions, so its answers are about your week rather than an average person's. It can set a goal or draft a meal or workout plan, and nothing is saved until you confirm it. It does not diagnose, and it points you to your GP for anything clinical.
No, for the label side. One scan in the aisle tells you something on its own. For patterns, yes: a normal week beats a perfect day, and the days you would rather not record are usually the ones carrying the information.
Cancel any time in your Apple subscriptions; Pro runs to the end of the period you have paid for and then stops. Your diary syncs to our servers so it survives a new phone or a reinstall. We do not sell your data or use it for marketing.
Not answered here? Inside the app, Settings → Feedback is the fastest route: the note arrives with your build number and account attached, so nobody has to ask you for them, and the reply comes back to you as a notification. Not on iPhone yet? Contact us, or read the support page first. For the food and nutrition questions there is a longer FAQ.
Free to download. Pro is £3.99 a month. iPhone, iOS 17 or later. Cancel any time.