Seed Oil Scout: Healthy Dining

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About this app

Seed Oil Scout enables restaurant goers to dine fearlessly in the urban jungle by avoiding processed foods, and finding foods they love, like grass-fed beef and more.

Ratings and reviews

Very useful app. Most of its utility is in scanning barcodes to check for unhealthy ingredients. However, not many restaurants are listed. One issue I found with adding a new product is that when you are taking a picture of the ingredient list, if the barcode happens to be in the picture, it will start over the process of adding a new product.

Lots of little bugs. Links to websites for restaurants don't work; the app just closes. Links to Google Maps don't work; again, the app just closes. Using the Android back function sometimes goes back to the previous thing/screen, and sometimes just closes the app. Interesting premise, though, with helpful information about the oils used at various restaurants.

$25/year - Google says 3 day free trial then during set up the app says create an account and get 7 full days and they'll email you after 5 days to remind you to cancel or stay - they email on day 5 but they have already charged on day 3 and won't refund, passing the blame to Google. Garbage customer service. Also, the app doesn't have a lot of data unless you're looking up major metro city, and even then, it's all user submitted, and you're going to have to ask restaurant regardless. Stay away!