ShopWell - Better Food Choices
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health & Fitness | Free | YottaMark, Inc. | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
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Consistently ranked as one of the top Health & Fitness apps, and featured by Apple, NBC, CNN, the Today Show, and more, ShopWell was created by Registered Dietitians, and is a community partner of the USDA.
SHOPWELL HELPS YOU
- Learn which foods match your dietary needs
- Achieve your health goals such as weight management or lower cholesterol
- Avoid ingredients you don’t want such as added sugar & trans fat
- Read food nutrition facts panels, calorie count, and ingredients
- Avoid allergens like gluten & lactose
- Scan foods in the supermarket or at home
- It is like having the knowledge of a personal nutrition expert in your pocket.
ShopWell can help you eat better if you have these goals:
- General Health
- Weight Management
- Heart Healthy
- Gluten Intolerance
- Digestive Health
- Athletic Training
- Lactose Intolerance
- Osteoporosis
- Anemia (Iron Deficient)
- High Blood Pressure
- High Cholesterol
- Type 1 Diabetes
- Type 2 Diabetes
- Vegetarian
- Vegan
- Pregnancy
ShopWell can help you avoid these food allergies:
- Shellfish
- Milk
- Gluten
- Fish
- Corn
- Poultry
- Animal By-products
- Tree Nuts
- Wheat
- Sulfites
- Peanuts
- Soy
- Eggs
- Meat
- Lactose
- Sesame
- Honey
ACTUAL USER REVIEWS
“I am over weight and was looking for something to help with my food choices. Thanks to this app I can do this now. I have lost 10lbs so far. I highly recommend.”
“Before getting it, I honestly thought I was eating very healthily when in reality had no idea what was being put in my body. Now I scan everything I buy and feel so much better about what I ingest!
“For the gluten intolerant, this app is essential. This app just became a lifeline for me.”
“Great app! Shows lots of options that match what I'm looking for, so I don't get boxed in to the most expensive brands.”
“It’s hard for the average person to decipher a nutrition label or an ingredient list. This app makes it easy to do so.”
HOW SHOPWELL WORKS
ShopWell takes the guesswork out of deciphering food nutrition labels while you shop at the supermarket by providing you with personalized food scores. ShopWell’s scoring system and scanner assesses foods based on your age, gender, health goals, diet needs, and your ingredient and nutrition preferences.
Food scores range from 0-100 and are bucketed into three categories: Green scores are a strong match for your diet, so are typically okay to eat in normal portions. Yellow scores are a medium match for your health, so you should read the labels carefully. Red scores are a weak match for your diet, or contain a potential allergen so these foods should be avoided or only be eaten occasionally in small portions.
ShopWell draws on trusted resources and guidelines set by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Institute of Medicine (IOM), and the latest peer reviewed research.
ShopWell works with United States based grocery foods only.
Reviews
Very unhelpful.
cat245815
I put my allergens in my profile and started looking through the recommendations based on my previous shopping after I linked my grocery store... yeah, the app is telling me to buy things with my allergens instead of what I had bought just because it’s a healthier choice. Dangerous!
Almost Well
Troy W
Good: - hands down, this app places so much useful dietary information at the users fingertips - many customization tools and filters Bad: - though a beautiful interface, IMO, there is a bit of a struggle with some of the organization; there is a hint of clutter and a lot of tapping going on - no landscape support for tablets - some refinement still needed in terms of functionality; some fields and texts fall off edge of screen; some tapping doesn’t induce a response The app has the potential to be THE best healthy grocery shopper’s assistant. I hope we get there.
Allergy not showing up
jmlblue
The app isn't showing that a product contains gluten when it does contain gluten.
Love the theory but...
CSG101
Love how this works on mainstream products however to items like at Costco not all items work. When I try to submit a photo I get an error screen. So I rather use my fitness pal but I hate how many steps I have to do to scan an item
Glorified grocery list app
Ace316789
This is just a glorified grocery list app. No real nutrition info beyond what’s already on a product label. If u want a list app and want to know what others are buying, this app is for you! Wonder bread is the top seller today! Ugh...
Crap.
need good app
I intentionally scanned almond milk that said no dairy, no soy and no gluten but yet the app says that there is soy in it. Not a trustworthy app.
Too many issues
cleighpb1013
I love this app. It’s very useful to me...when it works. Half the time I try to use it, it won’t function. It won’t load, I can’t log in, I’m at the grocery store and it won’t scan properly...so it kind of defeats the entire purpose of having it. I messaged the app via Facebook today after it once again wouldn’t allow me to log in, and they said they were having an issue they expected to resolve shortly. That was at 5pm and it’s now almost 11pm. I even deleted and reloaded it. It’s clearly an issue with the app. Kind of disappointing, especially after it was recommended to me by a GI doctor and dietician.
