FoodLens

Know what's in your food.

Ingredients, family alerts, best-before dates and recalls — explained clearly.

v4 Real Scan • Ingredient OCR beta

Understand your food in seconds.

Point FoodLens at a package. We'll help find the ingredients, allergens, date and recall information.

🏠My KitchenMonitor dates & recalls
⇄CompareChoose between products

Planned monitoring preview

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Demo only • no live recall checkSimulated pantry example
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Demo: 2 foods to use soonSimulated dates

Scan ingredients

Photograph the ingredient list on a packaged food. Use good light and keep text sharp.

Starting rear camera…

Photos are processed on this device and are not uploaded. The first scan may take longer while recognition files load.

Coming later: Find Date • Barcode scan • Live CFIA recalls

Check the label text

Captured ingredient label

Correct every ingredient and allergen statement against the package. OCR can omit or change words. FoodLens does not infer missing allergens.

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Scanned ingredient label

Real photo • Product identity unverified

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Allergens: check package directlyNo automated safety clearance. Confirm the complete label, including “Contains” and “May contain.”
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Recalls: not checkedLive CFIA recall connection is planned. Demo content elsewhere is simulated.
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Best-before date: not scannedFind Date is planned.

Ingredients from your verified text

Label text used

Ingredient

Why it's here

Evidence & regulatory context

Production FoodLens would show authoritative Canadian sources, regulatory status, evidence strength and the last-reviewed date here.

🇨🇦 Source links planned • no live regulatory lookup
Simulated comparison • planned feature

Compare products

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Maple Harvest

12
ingredients

⚠️ Milk
⚠️ MSG
Demo recall status

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Prairie Kitchen

9
ingredients

Demo: no milk listed
Demo: no MSG listed
Demo recall status

Key differences

Prairie Kitchen has fewer listed ingredients and does not contain the two items flagged by the demo family profile. FoodLens does not assign an arbitrary “health score”; you choose which differences matter.

Simulated pantry • no active monitoring

My Kitchen

Products you've chosen to monitor.

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Greek YogurtBest before Sep 30
3d
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Fresh Salad KitBest before Oct 2
5d
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Tomato SoupBest before Dec 18
82d
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Demo only • no live recall checkDemo pantry monitoring is active