FoodSwitch

FoodSwitch

About this app

Make healthier food choices with FoodSwitch. Simply scan a barcode to get its nutrition facts and healthier alternatives!

# Accredited by ORCHA with a review Score of 74% in 2020 making FoodSwitch app the most trusted source for health app advice

Whether you're looking to shop healthier food, diet, determine calories, avoid gluten, or looking for products low in calories, fat, saturated fat, sugars, salt or sodium, FoodSwitch will help you develop healthy habits when grocery shopping.

See for yourself why FoodSwitch is the world’s most popular health and fitness app.


MAKING HEALTHIER FOOD CHOICES IS FAST AND EASY
• Barcode Scanner --- Simply scan barcodes to view nutritional information of packaged food products. Over a million barcodes recognized in our huge database.
• Nutritional Tracker --- Information on the nutritional quality of packaged foods.
• Nutrient Details --- View Energy, Fat, Sugar, Salt content and more.
• Healthy Food Choice --- Make healthier food choices based on what you scan.
• Health Star rating mode --- View how key components in food rate using stars in Health Star Rating mode. The higher the star rating, the healthier the food is overall.
• Traffic Light Labels mode --- View how key components in food rate using colours in Traffic Light Labels mode. Red is less healthy, Green is a healthier choice and Amber is in between red and green.


MORE FEATURES
• Help the community by sharing photos of any items that you are not able to scan and help expand our product database.
• Identify products containing Gluten easily.

Check out this video. Professor Bruce Neal - Executive Director at The George Institute for Global Health talks about the FoodSwitch program and its vision to improve health
https://www.georgeinstitute.org/videos/launch-food-the-foodswitch-program

FoodSwitch data is used by governments and health organisations around the world. Download the app today for credible and impartial information.

FoodSwitch is owned and operated by The George Institute for Global Health.

For more information about FoodSwitch and FAQs, please visit
http://www.georgeinstitute.org/projects/foodswitch.

For our Terms of use, please visit
http://www.georgeinstitute.org.au/sites/default/files/foodswitch-terms-of-use.pdf

Ratings and reviews

Trying to understand after the download opening the app is telling me 'loading your healthier options...' I don't think it is meant to go into its second day loading the new Percentage number is 26204% I thought that Percentage only goes to 100. I am about 2 minutes away from uninstalling this time-wasting app that I hope to maybe use. If you choose to ignore this feedback then I will take it to the top.

Pros: Handy for a fast, basic overview of the key nutritional qualities of the product, mostly if you want to do your own research into it further. Cons: The recommended healthier alternatives aren't ideal (e.g. for A2 milk, it mostly suggested low fat milk products with A1 proteins, not other A2 / lactose free alternatives. It doesn't provide other details like the recommended daily intake for comparison. Also the info behind the sustainability rating is a bit vague & non-specific.

My doctor recommended this app and I liked the idea. So I installed and then went to the cupboard and found some products to scan, just so I could see how it works. After scanning half a dozen products, none of them were in the database. This doesn't bode well.

What’s new

Improvements, updates and bug-fixes to ensure you have a great experience : )