Five applications to find out more about what we put on your plate

Will buy, will not buy?If all industrial products are not necessarily to be banned, some are more so than others.You still have to know which ones!Several applications are betting today to support rays consumers after radius and possibly modify their purchasing habits.Did you know that this fruit juice full of promises and antioxidants drunk every morning with your coffee was filled with sugar, and that its equivalent, in another brand, was much healthier?That your favorite yogurts contained a controversial additive?Step by step, using your smartphone and a simple click, it now seems possible to favor products that want us good.

Yuka

Created by three young entrepreneurs in January 2017, the application to 5.6 million Yuka downloads gives the green, red, or orange light to food - but also recently to cosmetics.Just scan the product barcode to find out if it is considered excellent, good, poor, or bad, reasons in support.The platform determines this verdict according to the nutritional quality of products: amount of energy, saturated fats, sugars, salt, fruits and vegetables, fibers and proteins...The calculation method is based on the Nutri-Score.30 % of the evaluation also relates to the presence of harmful additives in the product, and 10 % of it is based on organic nature or not of this.

If the product is noted as mediocre, a healthier alternative is proposed:

Buyornot

Launched only since September 22 by the I-Boycott association, the Buyornot application does not only analyze the composition of our food products (list of ingredients, danger of additives, nutritional quality): it proposes to help usBuy more ethical and responsible.For this, using a simple scan, the platform deciphers the impact on the environment of the coveted product, its manufacturing process-respects the well-being of men and animals?- and information relating to the brand hiding behind it.Its announced objective: to help the French to "consume more healthy and more responsible (and) develop multinationals behind economic scandals".

Kwalito

"Monosodic glutamate, sulfites, trans fatty acids, E150D, does that speak to you?"The Kwalito application intends to make sure that yes!Its use differentiates some other applications of the genre somewhat, since Kwalito invites us to define upstream the type of diet that we are looking for.A palm oil -free diet?Without toxic additives?Gluten free ?Without lactose?Without peanuts?Without shell fruit?For pregnant women?Vegetarian?Vegan?Immediately these defined criteria, the application indicates to the consumer if the product suits him or not, at a time when the ingredients on the labels are sometimes difficult to understand.

Open Food Facts

The Open Food Facts application lists more than 547,000 products (including 175,000 in the United States) contained in the collaborative database of the Open Food Citizen Project, on which numerous applications for decryption of food products are based..Thanks to this application whose data is produced "by everyone, for everyone", it is possible to obtain a complete nutritional table of the product that we buy, to explore your additives, its possible allergens, itslabels, its traceability information, its carbon footprint...The advantage being that we can contribute to this database.

What's what in there

The mobile application "Y'a what in it" was launched on September 5 by "U" stores ".In the same way as Yuka, she proposes to decipher the ingredients but also the controversial substances and the additives present in our food using a simple scan, based on the Open Food Facts database."From now on, (the French) intend to be actors in their consumption, judge by themselves, know precisely what the products they consume contain, and then choose as easily as possible which corresponds to their preferences," said theBrand "Les stores u".A launch that is not unanimous: one of the founders of Yuka, Julie Chapon, launched to the magazine of great consumption in France LSA: "This is not the role of system U because they are judges and parties.They are not independent "."US stores" specify for their part to be involved in particular in the "deletion process of 82 controversial substances (palm oil, aspartame, monosodic glutamate, etc..) more than 6,000 products from their U brand ".

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