01 Ingredient scanner & checker

The UK ingredient scanner that reads the back of pack.

Point your camera at any UK barcode and we run a full ingredient check: every additive, every E-number, and the Big 14 allergens, next to the nutrition panel. The whole back of pack, in plain English.

Free download Pro £3.99/month or £34.99/year Cancel any time

02 What lands in the diary when you scan

Six things,
off one barcode.

We don't show you a single grade and call it a day. We show you the ingredient list the manufacturer wrote, with the bits worth recognising picked out, and we cite the regulator on every line we flag.

i

The full ingredients list, in pack order.

Manufacturers list ingredients by descending weight. We keep that order, so when the third word is sugar you can see it.

Wheat flour, sugar, palm oil, glucose syrup, cocoa As printed on pack
ii

Every E-number, picked out.

We name each additive in plain English, what it does, and what the regulator has said about it where published evidence exists. Source on every flag.

FLAG · E150d Caramel colour (ammonia sulphite) Used in cola, dark sauces, malt loaf. Can yield trace 4-MEI, which IARC classes as Group 2B.
iii

Big 14 allergens, spotted for you.

The 14 UK-recognised allergens the FSA requires labels to declare. We highlight any that show up in the ingredients we have.

Wheat on pack
Milk on pack
Soya on pack
iv

The nutrition panel, as printed.

Calories, sugar, salt, fat, protein. We don't recalculate. We read what the manufacturer printed and add it to your day against the UK NRV.

Sugar 14g
Salt 0.6g
Fat 9.2g
v

Processing markers, called out.

Emulsifiers, hydrogenated fats, modified starches, isolated proteins. We mark the things the NOVA literature lists as ultra-processed markers, so you can see them.

MARKER Emulsifier (E472e) A processing aid found mainly in industrial bakery.
vi

Branded or own-brand. Tesco to Co-op.

Same scanner reads a Tesco Finest pizza, a Heinz tin, an Aldi spread or a Lidl protein yoghurt. If a UK barcode exists, we look it up.

Tesco Sainsbury's Asda Morrisons Aldi Lidl Co-op Waitrose
03 A real UK pack, scanned

A pot of fruit yoghurt.
Here's what we read.

Anyone who's grabbed a strawberry yoghurt off the chiller has wondered how a yoghurt ends up with twelve lines on the ingredients list. Here's what comes back the moment we scan one.

The order, the additives, the panel, the source.

The ingredients line is the one the manufacturer printed. We pick out the additives, name them, and add a line on what the research says. The nutrition panel is read as printed, then it adds to your day against the UK NRV.

i. Point the camera at the barcode. The pot opens in the diary.
ii. Every additive named in normal English. E440, E412, E160c. Pectin, guar gum, paprika extract.
iii. Allergens we have on the label, flagged up top. Milk flagged on this pot. We only flag allergens that appear in the ingredients we have.
iv. Sugar bar lights up against your day. NRV target lives in your diary, not in the marketing.
04 What's in the scanner the day you sign in

What you
get.

The library we ship with on day one, and the regulators we cite when we flag something.

Additives in the library
480+

Every E-number we recognise on a UK packet, written in plain English. Where published evidence exists, the source is on the line.

UK allergens flagged
Big 14

The 14 the FSA requires UK labels to declare. We highlight any we spot in the ingredients we have for the product.

UK supermarket packs we read
All

Branded or own-brand, big shop or local. If a UK barcode exists in the food databases, the scanner reads it.

Sources on every flagged additive
Cited

EFSA, FSA, NHS, WHO and IARC. So you can trace any claim back to the regulator who wrote it.

05 Questions people ask

Frequently
asked.

Five questions we get in our inbox most weeks. Short answers, no flannel.

Is there an app that shows food ingredients?

Yes. Our scanner shows the full ingredients list for every UK product you scan: every ingredient, every additive, every E-number, and any of the 14 UK-recognised allergens, in the order they appear on the pack.

Can I scan a barcode to see ingredients?

Yes. Open NutraSafe, point your phone at a UK barcode, and you see the full ingredients list, additives flagged with what each one does, our per-product grade, and any of your saved allergens highlighted.

What's the difference between a calorie app and an ingredients scanner?

A calorie app totals what you ate today. An ingredients scanner reads what's in a product before you eat it: the order, the additives, the E-numbers, the allergens. We do both, in the same diary.

Why doesn't my calorie app show ingredients?

Most calorie apps are built around energy and macros and pull from crowd-sourced databases where users only enter the calorie field. We pull from the UK product databases that carry the full ingredient list, so we get the whole label.

Is the food ingredients scanner free?

The app is free to download. The free tier covers barcode scanning, the full ingredients list, our per-product grade, the public E-number library, and up to 25 food log entries a day. NutraSafe Pro is £3.99 a month or £34.99 a year on iOS.

Scan any UK pack.
We read the back of it
so you don't have to.

Get NutraSafe on the App Store

Free download covers barcode scanning and the full ingredient breakdown. Pro is £3.99 a month on iOS for the AI features, the workouts and the fasting.

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