About: How does your food score? How do we know what we’re eating, really? Food
processors make so many claims these days. Supermarkets are loaded with foods
that contain chemicals no one can pronounce.
Table of Contents:
EWG’s Food Scores houses information on tens of thousands of foods in a simple, searchable online format designed to guide consumers to healthy, affordable food that’s good for people and the planet.
The ingredient concerns algorithm focuses on factors such as the likely presence of key contaminants, pesticides, hormones and antibiotics and the health implications of certain food additives.
The nutrition scoring algorithm considers multiple factors, including calories, saturated fat, trans fat, sugar, sodium, protein, fiber and fruit, vegetable and nut content.
The processing score reflects EWG's best estimate of the extent to which a particular food has been processed.
Scoring factors include modification of individual ingredients from whole foods and the number of artificial ingredients.
How does your food score? How do we know what we’re eating, really? Food processors make so many claims these days.
How did we come up with our scores? We combine these ratings into a single overall product score.
Supermarkets are loaded with foods that contain chemicals no one can pronounce.
-- Ingredient concerns.
-- Nutrition.
-- Processing.
By Bludlow
I buy mostly organic, so my items do mostly show ratings numbers, however, the comparisons feature is useless. Won’t download, can’t designate as a favorite because it never goes beyond the "download" screen.
By Renato is awesome
Was really excited about this until I tried loading literally any of the product’s rating pages. Not a single one actually loads. Really disappointed in this because of the potential that was there. Maybe the developers will make it so it works at some point.
By CodedLipsLinedLips
Hi. I’d love to use EWGsFoodScores more but none of the articles will load with more detailed information. I can search for a brand, it will list a bunch of items but when I click on that specific tab to get more calcification on the actual food, the page will not load! Please update! Also, a lot of food brands are missing.
By KatieBsAZ
Really wanted this to work, but I’ve scanned everything in my pantry and nothing comes up. Then I browse for items and click on any I find (even though I don’t have those items) just to see how it’s scored and it never loads to show that. Great concept, poorly executed. Hopeful updates will fix it.
By HalfpintBarrett
App freezes whenever you open a food to look at the details. 🙁
By Leland Rix
The concept is great, but EWGsFoodScores contains too few products and lots of Standard American Diet stuff, which I am not buying anyway. Needs to expand to more GF, Paleo, AIP, etc. items.
By Mtkoren
I have an iPhone X. When I open EWGsFoodScores, all I have to do is touch the menu bar to get a list and then app immediately crashes. It has therefore lost all value.
By nwarnerhuang
EWGsFoodScores seems great! However, whenever I click on the product to expand the scores, it is just continually loading.
By Jnizzy
EWGsFoodScores is completely useless it worked once upon a time it doesn’t anymore save space on your phone do not download EWGsFoodScores
By Screbob
It actually needs to work. Looking at a food item, it’s been downloading the details of one item for the past 30 minutes.
By Writerinfact
I scanned about a dozen products from national brands to house brands to what I have to call total unknowns. Not a single one was found in the database. I am not interested in providing EWG with products to investigate. Until it works as claimed it will remain deleted.
By Retta317
Potentially useful app but whenever you click on any of the products the page will not load.
By I/love
Thank you !
We need to support you ... everyone!
By Catty1882
I can search products, but I can’t see the information when I click on them. It does not download.
By Anonymous User 23579
On home screen, after tapping the menu icon (3 horizontal lines), EWGsFoodScores crashes. iPhone 6. iOS 10.3.3.
By Ygrdgjyrfhj
Used to be OK. Had some products, but limited. Now, nothing. Never finds any item. I wish it still worked and would continue to add products.
By no god please no nooooo
Camera will not work to scan within app. Totally worthless
By Mb5001
Doesn’t work and hasn’t been updated in years.
By saladtaya
App doesn’t work. Anything I click on it says “downloading” with the wheel of death. Can’t see any of the info.
By Dandouchi
The stars I give represent not the reality but the idea behind EWGsFoodScores , which could be so amazing if given an ounce of effort on EWG’s part. I downloaded Skin Deep, EWGsFoodScores this came from, a few years ago but never got much use out of it — everything I scanned was not part of their database. I was excited to see they’d updated EWGsFoodScores and combined it with one for food items. I’m really disappointed to see it’s no better than it was before. It has info for maybe one in ten items in my house, and not the ones I was most interested in seeing. These are common products from big-name brands purchased from Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, and the like. What the hell is in your database if not those? Seriously, what? Who do you think is using this product if not people who shop at Whole Foods, the nation’s top retailer of natural products? I wonder if I would have better luck scanning crappy Revlon products at CVS or Kmart? Come on, EWG, show a little effort. It could be such an amazing resource with a little work updating your database. Until then, two stars is me being generous.
By Macagal
I type in food categories and specific brand names and nothing happens. Tried the scanner, just as useless. Good concept, bad execution.
By Bashful Bob
None of the items that I barcode scanned were in their database.
By Tdg719
Doesn’t recognize any barcodes
By BHubler
Most of the items I scanned/searched were not in the system. You also cannot search by food type, and there is no way to see the "better" alternatives to the item you scan. Information is not accurate, for example, I scanned a product with a no gmo label - EWGsFoodScores gave it a bad score for containing gmo ingredients.
By Queen Bee Texas
I am so excited to find an app to cut the confusion! I just downloaded it, so I have yet to use it but am extremely excited to have the ability to cut to the chase while standing in front of a product in the isle and find valuable info beyond the label. At first I thought, why do I need this if I eat whole foods, but I do buy broths, coffees, almond and coconut milks, etc. so even if you are a perimeter shopper, I think this will be quite helpful! Thanks!
Only thing I can think of that would make this even better is if it had a Q scanner or upc?
I will be back with a full use review!
By GarytheFairy
Just downloaded and checked several items in our pantry. Highly useful info, though it's important to understand the suppositions that guide the ratings. Items that were not recognized tend to be store brand. When an item is not recognized, EWGsFoodScores tells you that the barcode has been added to a list for update, so good promise for a rapidly improved database.
Yes. EWG's Food Scores is very safe to use. This is based on our NLP (Natural language processing) analysis of over 44 User Reviews sourced from the Appstore and the appstore cumulative rating of 1.7/5 . Justuseapp Safety Score for EWG s Food Scores Is 40.9/100.
Yes. EWG's Food Scores is a totally legit app. This conclusion was arrived at by running over 44 EWG's Food Scores User Reviews through our NLP machine learning process to determine if users believe the app is legitimate or not. Based on this, Justuseapp Legitimacy Score for EWG s Food Scores Is 58.6/100..
EWG's Food Scores works most of the time. If it is not working for you, we recommend you excersise some patience and retry later or Contact Support.
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