Spoonful: Food Scanner

I found some info on their website with a link for more info — “that’s in our app” it said. So I got the app… only to be told after I created an account that it’s a monthly fee to use, and they didn’t seem to have any ingredients for the item in question (unless it’s there only for paid accounts).

The app is great for people like me with celiac disease but the scanner doesn’t work well at all! The camera doesn’t seem to focus well compared to another app I use (Yuka) which picks codes up almost immediately. But I do appreciate your app!

I love this app helps me find safe food on the fly. 💜

This app is very helpful when shopping, visiting or at home. It is reassuring when I think something is probably low FODMAP, and has kept me from making uncomfortable mistakes.

I love it so far, I don’t know if I’ll keep paying $29.99 per month, but it’s helping me find things I can eat now that I’m on a dairy-free diet.

This app is excellent for helping pick foods for my son’s special diet. If they don’t have a product on their platform I can scan the barcode, photograph the ingredients and I get results in seconds.

When things aren’t certified gluten free, Spoonful makes me feel comfortableKnowing if the product is truly gluten-free or not

When I got diagnosed and realized I had to stick to a low fodmap diet, I tried every app around and spoonful on the browser was helping and accurate 99% of the time. The app had been great for a while until recently many foods suggested as safe suddenly became triggers. Furthermore, some of these were foods and brands that I seem to recall looking up in the past and weren’t safe but now suddenly were ok? I asked other fodmappers on reddit if they had noticed any change with the app accuracy with SIBO/IBS and surprisingly several had the same experience. One person who had done more research said that she found certain brands were sponsoring the company behind the app to add their app to promote their foods to people with low fodmap so people would stop avoiding them. This seems to be congruent with my experience of suddenly getting pains and bloating again after originally loving using spoonful on the web. What is even more sketchy is the thread has been ‘removed’ (likely from request from spoonful) despite not having broken any rules. I’d encourage anyone who had downloaded this app to reconsider using it in the future and just stick with the web version from now on. You are worth more than to have to deal with the flare ups and this app clearly has sold out.

Love it

Sorry! No thanks