Scan a nutrition label
Photograph the panel on a packet and it gets read into numbers you can use. Useful for anything branded — sauces, stock, plant milks, protein bars — where the packet is more accurate than a generic database entry.
Upload a photo of the label
Photograph the panel straight on, filling the frame. The image is resized in your browser before it is sent, and is never stored — only the numbers read from it are kept.
Why scan a label at all?
Generic database entries are averages. For anything branded — a jar of sauce, a carton of oat milk, a stock cube — the packet in your hand can differ from the average by a lot, and sodium is the worst offender: two brands of the same product can be threefold apart.
Where a recipe's nutrition hinges on one branded ingredient, reading its actual label is the single biggest accuracy improvement available.
What it can and cannot read
It transcribes what is printed — it does not calculate. If a panel does not list a nutrient, the result shows zero rather than a derived guess, and anything it could not read confidently is listed explicitly so you know what to check. A wrong number would be worse than an admitted gap.
Blurred, angled or partly-cropped panels are where it struggles. If a value looks wrong, it probably is — check it against the packet.
It reads more than the panel: the ingredient statement, the allergen line, any on-pack claims, the net weight and the barcode all come across in one go, because re-reading a packet costs another look and there is no reason to pay for it twice.
What happens to a scan
The photo is not stored. It is uploaded, read, and discarded; what is kept is the text that came off it.
What was on the packet becomes a shared record. A nutrition label is public product information — it is printed on a box in a shop and it is the same for every packet — so once one person photographs a box of cereal, everybody else gets those numbers without paying for another reading, and scanning the same packet again is free. That is what makes this feature cost almost nothing to run.
So: photograph packets, and fill the frame with the panel. Nothing else in the picture needs to be sent. What happens to a photograph, in full.
Using it in a recipe
Press Use in a recipe and the product is handed to the analyser as a one-ingredient recipe, with its numbers taken from the label rather than from a name lookup. From there you can paste the rest of the recipe around it, set the servings, and get the per-serving breakdown as usual.