Scan nutrition labels

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It would be nice if the app let you scan nutrition labels. Some foods, and pre-made meals do not have a barcode, but they all have nutrition labels. The app should be able to read those labels.

Jean

Thanks for taking a minute to share your suggestion with us of being able to search via QR code. Our team will definitely consider adding it for future update!

k377yb

Hi Jean,

From what I can tell, his request was to add nutrition label scanning (not QR code). I would love to see the ability to scan nutrition labels.

There are many instances where scanning the barcode results in a food that has incorrect information, so being able to scan a level would take much of the manual work out of adding the information by hand. Thanks!

ltoatley

A few years ago that ability was taken away from the free version of the app( I loved it since it was so much easier than having to search ) and if I’m not mistaken it was available thereafter only for premium version

Lietchi

ltoatley wrote: »

A few years ago that ability was taken away from the free version of the app( I loved it since it was so much easier than having to search ) and if I’m not mistaken it was available thereafter only for premium version

OP is talking about scanning the actual food labels with the nutritional info, not the barcode scanner which you are referring to.

AnnPT77

Yes, I understood the OP to be suggesting being able to scan the nutrition label on a food. Since scanning photos and extracting text is quite a common technology these days, and US nutrition labels are quite standardized, it seems like this would be an achievable feature . . . and very helpful going forward. If there were a way to easily identify the scanned-nutrition foods in the search list, maybe a symbol different from the green check, that would be extra nice. We'd at least know that those entries were likely accurate as of a point in time.