If a healthy diet is important to you, then take a moment to look at a few food ingredient labels at your local grocery store. You'll find dangerous additives such as monosodium glutamate (MSG), butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT) and even worse! The U.S. Food and Drug Administration claims these are "generally recognized as safe", however independent research suggests otherwise. But what about the safety of other common additives such as propyl gallate or sodium nitrate?

Introducing Ingredian, the food scanner. Ingredian uses your phone's camera to scan ingredient label text for quickly detecting additives and other potentially harmful chemicals lurking in your food. All detected ingredients are sorted in order by category with web links that provide additional information about each one.

Ingredian can also assist in detecting allergens such as eggs, dairy, fish, nuts, soy and wheat. The Ingredian Pro paid version supports an Alpha-gal diet, i.e., red meat allergy diet.

This app scans ingredient label text on the product container. Similar apps scan bar codes, which are frequently out of date or missing entirely from the connected server's database.

Features:
  ✔ Ingredient categories: Allergens, Anti-caking agents, Anti-foaming agents, Bleaching agents, Buffering agents, Colorings, Countries of origin, Emulsifiers, Enzymes, Flavorings, Miscellaneous, Nutrients, Oils, Preservatives, Solvents, Spices/Herbs, Stabilizers & Sweeteners
  ✔ Diets supported: Dairy-free, Fish-free, Gluten-free, Nut-free, Vegan & Vegetarian
  ✔ Performs fast real-time scans - No need to crop a picture and wait for results
  ✔ Supports scanning of large labels such as found on frozen pizza boxes
  ✔ Ingredients are detected by the device with no server intervention
  ✔ Detected ingredients scroll across the screen for quick review
  ✔ Detects country of origin when listed on the ingredients label
  ✔ Supports customization of detectable ingredients and diets
  ✔ Camera Zoom option for setting initial zoom from 0 - 100%
  ✔ Speech Synthesizer option to speak ingredients detected
  ✔ Detects over 300 allergens from Abalone to Zucchini
  ✔ Web links to food safety gov and nutrition info sites
  ✔ Scan Accuracy options: Good, Better & Best
  ✔ Scan Mode options: Automatic & Manual
  ✔ Camera Flash option for use in low light
  ✔ Unlimited number of scans permitted
  ✔ High-contrasting user interface
  ✔ Minimal permissions required
  ✔ Low power consumption
  ✔ Show diet compliancies
  ✔ Small download size

This app is free with no data tracking and no required user sign-in. Intended only for the U.S.A. and its territories.

Note: Some older Samsung Galaxy devices have camera autofocus issues that may prevent them from working with this and other Android apps. Click on this link for a possible remedy:
https://removeandreplace.com/2016/06/09/10-reasons-why-a-samsung-galaxy-phone-is-taking-blurry-pictures

Email us for any questions or to request a new database ingredient at [email protected]