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teolemon on July 11, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: How we're scammed into eating phony food

YES :-) Open Food Facts is an open, collaborative effort to try to make more sense of food and food packagings. A bit like Wikipedia, but for food. Using smartphones, you can scan any food item and get detailed info about what you're about to buy/eat. If it's not yet in the database, you can help by taking a picture

Since we collect all claims and labels, and nutrition info, we can see if your cheese is actually low fat cheese, or just in the average. You can - compare between countries, brands, whatever you like… - easily create comparison charts - much much more

Web: http://world.openfoodfacts.org Android: (http://android.openfoodfacts.org) iPhone: (http://ios.openfoodfacts.org) Windows Phone: (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/apps/openfoodfacts/9nb...)

We're looking for volunteer contributors and developers from all over the world to: - translate it to more languages - add food from your fridge - enhance the apps and web version

whamlastxmas on July 11, 2016 [–]

Is there a way to sign in to my account on the Android app, take a bunch of pictures of my food, then sit at my computer to do all the typing while looking at the photos I just took?

teolemon on July 11, 2016 | [–]

Yes, there's a login button in the Android app. We also have OCR and autocompletion to help with the typing.

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