This is convenient! The product evaluation app that makes shopping 100 times easier 👛 "Food Score" 🇯🇵 ① AI checks food additives ✨

I recently wrote a series of articles about the French product evaluation app "Yuka", and thanks to Noriko-san's comment, I learned that there is actually a similar app in Japan ✨

Noriko-san's comment is here ↓

In Japan, the "Yuka" app isn't available, but "Food Score" works fine ✨

So, I looked it up right away.

The site below also touches on the judgment of foods containing "beni-koji" (red yeast rice), but I'll skip that part and introduce how "Food Score" works this time ✨

"Food Score" ✨ by SignalTalk Co., Ltd., which launched on February 4, 2021.Food Score✨

The "event where AI judges healthy food" held in May of that year was covered by 48 media outlets, and various media continued to feature it until around the end of January 2023.

"Food Score" app allows you to "scan a food's barcode" or "list of ingredients", and AI judges the healthiness of the food on a 5-level scale from A to E based on the negative effects of the additives in the ingredients.

"A to C" are judged as generally safe foods to eat ◎, and unhealthy ingredients and additives are displayed in red text ❌.

You can only check the healthiness of food on a smartphone; on a PC, you can only view the "list of healthy foods you can search for" ✨

It's great that there are features you can use on a PC as well as a smartphone!

I immediately checked the recommendations for seasonings ✨

1st to 3rd place 🏅

4th to 6th place 🏅

7th to 9th place 🏅

To be honest, I was blown away 😅

Isn't it even more amazing than the French app "Yuka"? 🇫🇷 👏

Actually, there was something about "Yuka" that had been bothering me.

That is the labeling of "salt"!

In "Yuka", both "refined salt", which is considered unhealthy, and natural salts like "sea salt" and "rock salt", are all listed only as "salt".

High salt content = judged as unhealthy 💦

In the "Food Score" recommended seasoning list, the #1 "Marukawa Miso" clearly states in the "ingredients" section under "salt" that it uses "solar salt crystals and Ki-Power Salt" 👏

Rice koji also uses "2017 Miyagi Prefecture, natural cultivation Sasanishiki by Mr. Kimura of Tadenmushi", "2017 Hokkaido", and "Mr. Orikasa's natural cultivation white-eye soybeans" 👏

The details that consumers would want to know are clearly stated.

This is Japanese quality 🇯🇵 You don't even have to scan a barcode; you can just choose from the recommended list... And if there are Amazon or Rakuten shop links below the product, you can jump there and buy it 👏

It's just so thorough...

Health ratings have already been determined by Food Score, the number of searchable food items exceeds 152,000, and the total number of uses has exceeded 285,000 (as of March 2024).

I can't believe an app like this was born in Japan 3 years ago... Even the health geeks around me don't know about it 😂 (Thanks to Noriko-san for discovering it 🍀)

So, following "Yuka", this will also become a series!

"Food Score" was frequently featured in the media until 2023...

Next time, I will introduce an interesting article from it!