Spoonful: Diet & Food Scanner

Spoonful

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About this app

Eat with confidence. Scan any food in seconds.

Spoonful is the food scanner built for people with real dietary needs — whether you're managing IBS, celiac disease, food allergies, or following a plant-based lifestyle. Just scan a barcode and Spoonful instantly tells you if a product is safe for your diet.

No more squinting at ingredient labels. No more guesswork at the grocery store.

SCAN ANY PRODUCT INSTANTLY
Point your camera at a barcode and get a clear green, yellow, or red result in seconds. Spoonful analyzes not just the obvious ingredients — but the hidden ones too.

LOW FODMAP
Simple traffic-light results based on a product's FODMAP content. Supports all phases — elimination, reintroduction, and personalization — reviewed by Monash-trained dietitians who manage IBS for thousands of patients.

GLUTEN FREE
Detects both obvious and hidden gluten ingredients in packaged foods, including potential cross-contact risks like oats. Reviewed by dietitians who personally live with celiac disease.

ALLERGEN SCANNER
Covers milk, fish, shellfish, peanuts, tree nuts, wheat, soy, and eggs. Goes beyond the label to flag cross-contact risks that other apps miss.

PLANT-BASED
Options for vegan, vegetarian, and pescatarian diets. Catches hidden animal-derived ingredients you'd never think to look for. Reviewed by plant-based dietitians.

FIND BETTER ALTERNATIVES
When a product doesn't work for your diet, Spoonful doesn't just say no — it finds you the best substitutes based on taste and popularity, so you never leave the store empty-handed.

COMMUNITY-POWERED
Browse thousands of products scanned and reviewed by real people following the same diets as you. You're not figuring this out alone.

Spoonful is trusted by people managing some of the most complex dietary needs out there. Grounded in Food as Medicine — because what you eat has a direct impact on how you feel every day.

Join the community and start shopping with confidence.

Ratings and reviews

It worked great enough to pay for a subscription, now it doesn't go past the loading screen you get on before getting to the main page. The suggestions received to fix it did nothing and I haven't heard back since, it's rather a disappointment that I still have the annual subscription now. Going to have to cancel it for long-term unresolved technical issues.

UPDATE: This week's update did NOT fix this! Still cannot manually search AT ALL. Last update broke the search feature. It is not possible to search by name at all, only to scan barcodes now. The search button takes you to a blank screen. This is EXTREMELY bad as I need to check items from school menus for my kid, which I cannot scan. Bring back the search feature NOW.

I have been using this app for about 3 years. It has been awesome. I have the premium account, and it is worth the money. I used 2 other apps previously, but they had too many missing foods. This app rarely has an item missing. If it doesn't have a particular food, is super easy to add by simply taking a picture. I recommend this app for anyone with food allergies or for anyone that needs to follow a particular diet. It's easy to use, and I have never had any technical issues.

What’s new

Small improvements and bug fixes to search.