A+++ The Best App Ever – Spoonful: Food Scanner Review

I only wish I had found this back when I first became aware of the Fodmap diet. It has helped me tremendously with my IBS, but it was a long learning curve. On every trip to the supermarket, I had to scour every tiny print ingredients label, many times only to find out later that a product I thought was fine wasn’t because of a hidden ingredient (some ingredients are listed under certain generalized categories, like “flavorings”). With Spoonful, I just carry my phone around with the app open, scan the label of any food that’s new to me, and boom - I instantly get a green, yellow or red picture of the product (okay, maybe, no), with an easy to understand explanation if it’s a maybe, so that I can quickly determine if it’s a yes or no for me. This is sheer genius! There’s a lot more good stuff in the app as well, but I don’t want to create too long a review. Additionally, I’ve received some really informative and helpful emails from the company, which I keep as additional reference. Of course, you can always unsubscribe if you don’t like getting emailed, but I find these to be packed with useful info and resource links, so am very happy to get them. This is a dedicated and responsive company, as well. While almost everything I scan is in their database, if it isn’t, they invite you to email a picture of the label to them, so they can analyze and then add it. I did that yesterday, and was surprised to get an almost immediate response (human, not computer generated). Overall, this app, and this company, looks like a winner in every way imaginable.
Review by SJYgamer on Spoonful: Food Scanner.