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Read past the label.
Point your phone at a barcode and see what is actually in the packet — nutrition in context, the ingredient list decoded, allergens surfaced, and every E number explained without the scare stories.
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Oatfield
Wholegrain Oat Biscuits
300 g
Contains
Oats · Milk
Sugar
18 g
Saturates
4.1 g
Salt
0.2 g
Illustration. “Oatfield” is not a real product.
Scan
Point the camera at the barcode. Or type the numbers — that works just as well.
Understand
Allergens first, then the four nutrients people actually look for, then the full declaration.
Choose
Save what you want to remember. Compare pack sizes. Decide for yourself.
Allergens
“Contains” and “may contain” are not the same sentence.
One is a legal declaration about the recipe. The other is a voluntary statement about the factory. FoodSignal never renders them as the same chip, and never tells you a food is safe — it tells you what the label said, and what we did not find in it.
Contains
May contain
Always check the packaging. Recipes change, and they differ between countries.
Additives
An E number is a name, not a verdict.
E300 is vitamin C. E322 is lecithin, which is most of the reason chocolate is smooth. FoodSignal explains what each additive does and cites the regulation that authorises it — because “E number equals bad” is not information, it is just a different kind of ignorance.
Browse the additive databaseNutrition
No score out of a hundred.
Whether a food suits you depends on how much of it you eat, how often, what else you eat and your own circumstances. A single number would pretend we knew all four. Instead FoodSignal shows the declared figures against published thresholds, says which scheme it is using, and marks anything it calculated rather than read.
Energy
482kcal
Sugars
18.0g
Saturates
4.1g
Salt
0.2g
Bands follow the UK front-of-pack guidance — voluntary UK guidance, not an EU or Irish requirement, and labelled as such wherever it appears.
The database
We build the food database ourselves.
Every product records where its information came from and under what licence. We keep old recipes when a manufacturer reformulates, we keep the label text exactly as printed, and we keep national recipes apart instead of merging them because the packaging looks similar.
- Products
- 591
- Brands
- 226
- Barcodes
- 591
- Additives
- 122
Privacy
Nobody here reads your scan history.
- Your scan history has no staff access path at all — not a policy we promise, a permission that does not exist in the database.
- We count that a barcode was scanned. We do not record who scanned it.
- No advertising trackers, and your data is never sold.
- Delete your account, and your history and preferences go with it.
Pricing
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Questions
- Can I rely on this if I have a food allergy?
- No — and no app should tell you otherwise. FoodSignal shows the label information we hold, which may be out of date or may be for a different country's recipe. The packaging in your hand is always the authority. We are careful never to tell you a food is safe.
- What happens when a manufacturer changes the recipe?
- The barcode usually stays the same, so we keep the old recipe as well as the new one and show you when it changed. Most databases simply overwrite it.
- What if you don't have the product?
- You can send it to us from the app — the barcode, the ingredient list, the nutrition panel. We check every submission before it goes in, and the next person who scans it will find it.
- Why is there no health score?
- Because it would be made up. Whether a food suits you depends on quantity, frequency, your whole diet and your circumstances. We show you the figures and the context, and leave the judgement where it belongs.
- Which countries does it cover?
- Ireland first, then the UK and the EU, then further afield. Where a product has different national recipes we keep them apart and show you the one relevant to you.