According to experts around the world, the key to an overall healthy diet is to limit your intake of “ultra-processed” foods, which make up about 60% of our calories and contribute 90% of calories from added sugars, and instead choosing healthier, unprocessed and minimally processed foods that offer a variety of nutrients.
Some foods hook us for all the wrong reasons. These apps can help you identify products with harmful additives and choose healthier alternatives.
Yuka is a mobile app that helps consumers decode food labels and understand the real health impact of what they buy. Used by 75 million people worldwide, including 25 million in the U.S., Yuka offers clear, evidence-based scores and suggests healthier alternatives. Its independent, ad-free model ensures unbiased evaluations grounded in science.
Healthy Living rates over 120,000 food and personal care products, letting you scan items, review their safety scores, and find healthier alternatives instantly. Created by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), a nonprofit backed by scientists and policy experts since 1993, the app continues EWG’s mission to expose harmful industry practices and empower safer consumer choices.
The GoCoCo app helps people living with prediabetes or diabetes detect unhealthy ultra-processed products at the supermarket. With a quick scan, the app analyzes food labels, flags ultra-processed products, highlights additives banned in Europe (and some US States), and suggests healthier alternatives.
The ZOE App helps you make more informed food choices, build healthy habits, and track your progress. Instantly log meals with validated AI photo logging, explore the Processed Food Risk Scale to understand the health impact of processed foods, and get comprehensive food scores backed by the world’s largest nutrition study. Unlock personalized nutrition advice with ZOE membership for just $9.99 per month.
WISEcode does more than scan food labels – it provides personalized nutrition insights using the world’s most comprehensive nutrition and ingredient database. Powered by FoodTechAI™, our Codes empower people to choose food that matches their goals and values with confidence and joy.
Choose well using these Top 10 lists from Yuka
What is Demeter? Think organic but better…Organic 2.0.
Imagine if all the foods you ate contained no toxins, inflammatory chemicals, or known carcinogens AND were produced in a way that was environmentally friendly, required animals to be treated humanely, created healthier soil, and resulted in more nutrient dense food.
Sound too good to be true? Well…that’s Demeter. If you buy Demeter-certified products, you don’t have to worry about any of the ingredients. The Demeter logo is a guarantee that you and your family are getting the cleanest food possible!
Demeter was created nearly 100 years ago and is THE brand worldwide for certified organic products produced by biodynamic farming, which is the gold standard in regenerative agriculture. There are currently more than 7,000 Demeter-certified farmers with over 617,000 acres in 63 countries, and FoodFight USA is committed to working with American farmers to grow those numbers.
For decades, powerful corporations have flooded our food system with ultra-processed foods that are engineered to be addictive and deceptively marketed, particulalry to kids. FoodFight USA is fighting back.
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