SmartChoice — Ingredient Scanner
Know what's really in your products.
SmartChoice scans any barcode — food, cosmetics, cleaning products, supplements or pet food — and gives you an instant, ingredient-based verdict, plus the reasons behind it. It runs on the same rules engine behind the verdicts on YummyLogy.
iPhone & Android · Free · No account needed to start scanning
How it works
1 · Scan the barcode
Point your camera at any product. No barcode? Photograph the ingredient label, paste the ingredients, or search.
2 · We check the ingredients
Every ingredient is cross-referenced against regulatory and scientific sources — 13 named regulators, including the European Commission, FDA, Health Canada and IARC.
3 · Get a clear verdict
A 0–100 score and exactly which ingredients were flagged and why. Tap any ingredient to see what it is and where it's restricted.
Scan almost anything
Five categories, detected automatically from the barcode.
Food
Additives, dyes, sweeteners and processing, flagged against 13 named regulators. Organic ingredients now score higher, and baby food is judged the way a parent would judge it.
Cosmetics
Parabens, sulfates, formaldehyde releasers and fragrance allergens.
Cleaning
Harsh solvents, quats, bleach, phosphates and more.
Supplements
Banned actives, doses above safe limits, and proprietary blends.
Pet food
Judged by its own rules, per species — what's safe for you can be toxic for a cat or dog. The newest category, still growing.
More than a score
Made for you
Save your allergens, diets and ingredients to avoid, and every scan gets a personalized “for you” read.
Shelf scan
Hold your phone up to a shelf and every product gets its score at once, best first.
What’s in it, and how much
Alongside the verdict, see whether a product is high in saturated fat, sugars or sodium, using Health Canada's front-of-package thresholds.
Picks near you
SmartChoice recognizes the stores near you and shows what's approved on those shelves, plus curated picks ranked by ingredient quality.
Eating out
Restaurant menus scored from the ingredient statements the chains publish themselves.
Score over time
When a recipe changes, the old score is kept, so you can see whether the product changed or the rules did.
Get SmartChoice
Free on iPhone and Android. Turn every barcode into a clear, honest answer.
Download SmartChoice →SmartChoice provides informational ingredient assessments, not medical, dietary, or safety advice. Always read the product's own label.