FoodFacts-Allergy, Weight Loss at Mac App Store analyse

I am giving this app one star for many reasons: 1) It lists my recommended calorie intake dangerously low: 986 calories. I am 5 ft. 6 inches and I weight 128 pounds; 2) Something is off with their rating scale --throughout the site. Many organic products are given low ratings and listed as having "controversial ingredients." For instance, Plum Organics pumpkin and banana food pouch is rated a "B" and listed as having "controversial ingredients" and MSGs. Its organic and has three ingredients, so what are the controversial ingredients. Annies organic chocolate chip cookies is given a "D." For 7 grams of sugar in two cookies, with organic ingredients? That seems a little extreme, if you ask me. And vanilla is highlighted as a controversial ingredients? 3) More inconsistent ratings. Atkins Sweet and Crunchy bars (boxed) are rated a "B," while the individual bar is rated a "C." They are THE SAME BARS. This is concerning. The entire App needs to be removed, or a complete overhaul. Inconsistencies throughout and low ratings for many organic products. Something doesnt add up.

This app is powerful in that it lets you quickly look up a foods grade, nutrition facts, and ingredients of packaged foods with a quick and simple scan of their barcodes. Info on popular fast foods can also be browsed within the app. If the app lacks info on a food, you can try to submit package photos to an email address given in the app but you have to exit the app to do this. Also, theres no clear way to add information about a food that isnt in their database. This app looks like it has a good future ahead of it, if it continues to receive new users and development.

We downloaded this app, and were testing it out with products we have at home. On certified vegan items, the app was saying there were animal products in it. This happened with four products that we tried, and that was our limit. It may be good for some things, but you really need to approach this with caution.

In order to use the app, you need to enter sex, DOB, weight, height, etc. The vendor doesnt state the purpose for this information, how it will be used by the vendor, nor how the data will be protected.

I input my food allergies and health issues. Then I browsed products. Instead of filtering out the items that would be harmful, I had to scroll through page after page of items with the red slash. Most of the items without the red slash were rated as F or D-. This would be a GREAT app if you could sort items by how good they would be for your particular allergens and health issues instead of just an A to Z list. Definitely not worth the $1.99 a month to see the foods that are best for you.

I am really liking this new Foodfacts App! It’s easy to work and I love that it gives me a list of ailments to choose from and then shows me what foods to avoid. I also like that I can see all the ingredients I’ve eaten each day. It made me re-think what I’ve been eating! Unlike the other user, I haven’t had any issues with my back button or my history. I would suggest giving us a way to send products, but other than that…Love!

This app barely works on my iPhone 6+. It does scan and show you the food facts rating but it has many limitations. The most annoying issue is the time out that easily happen when you scan products at the grocery store and have slow signal. If the app does not get an answer form the site it gives a timeout error and is stuck requiring you to kill the app and start it again. The back button barely works. The history did not work for me ever. When it does not find any info it asks to send pictures of the product but there is no way to do that from the app so whats the purpose of that? Just remove the message or provide a way to send the info for unknown products. This is definitely not worth the price... $.99 at most until it is polished and working fully...