Spoonful is a collaborative effort between data experts and dietitians. Most of us manage health conditions through food, which gave us the inspiration for the app. Our founders, Deepa and Sam, live in the United States (California and Texas to be exact), and our dietitians live in the US, Canada,…
Every once in a while, you may come across a product that has an incorrect image. Currently, we use a third party to display the product images you see on scan results and in the Discover feed. Sometimes, it misfires. If you see an image that doesn’t look quite right,…
The search feature is a great way to find safe products from a particular category or brand. Just tap the search bar at the top of the Discover feed and enter in a keyword to return results. If you’re having trouble finding results for a particular keyword, try broadening or…
The Discover feed is a running list of products that have been scanned by the Spoonful community. To access it, tap the “Discover” icon in the bottom left corner of the app. In the feed, Spoonful places scanned products into 3 key categories – green, yellow, and red – based…
Note: This tutorial assumes you have set Spoonful to evaluate products according to the vegan diet. To confirm, tap the menu icon on the Discover tab and select Diet –> Vegan. Spoonful’s vegan scanner helps you steer clear of animal products by underlining any animal or animal-derived ingredients in your…
Yes! Our scanner not only calls our gluten-containing ingredients like wheat, barley, and rye, but also identifies ingredients that pose a high risk for cross-contamination. As indicated by the overlapping arrow icon, “oats” are a cross-contamination risk. If you are celiac, you should consider avoiding this product. play youtube, xvideos,…
Some of the products you scan may have yellow ingredients with icons next to them. Each icon gives more context as to why the ingredient was marked. Arrow: This ingredient is at high risk for cross contamination. Tap to learn more. (For example, “oats” do not contain gluten in their natural…
Spoonful’s gluten-free scanner identifies gluten- or possible gluten-containing ingredients in packaged food products. We display scan results in a simple green, yellow, red icon system so you can quickly get the advice you need. Green: This product is likely gluten free as we did not detect any gluten-containing ingredients or…
Due to country-specific labeling rules, some ingredients can be low FODMAP in one country and moderate or high FODMAP in another. These nuances are currently reflected in the Spoonful app, but not on the Spoonful website (since we don’t ask for your location). On the website, we default to US…
In most bread products, we flag ingredients like wheat, barley, or spelt, because they contain moderate to high levels of fructan. In sourdoughs however, we often do not flag these ingredients, because the fructans are reduced to acceptable levels during the fermentation process. The only exception to this rule is…