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pom — Scan products to avoid harmful or unwanted ingredients
pom makes it easy to pick products that are safe for your health. Simply scan any product's ingredient list, and pom will flag harmful substances. Set custom flags for ingredients you want to avoid. See the latest studies with smart breakdowns.
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@leanna_l if you could further enhance with probably next release on built-in AI to give users options to use the product (with its ingredients) to cook up dishes or cuisines. The AI would give suggestive dishes based on consumer viral habits and diet (gathered from behaviour consumer purchases of cooked item or ordered food).
For those diabetic or HBP, ability to advise based on scanned product to determine if it is safe for them to consume and at what amount is acceptable (presumbly such as Sweets, chocolates, candies and those high salt or sodium based consumer product).
For me as Type 2 Diabetic, I had to keep looking at the ingredients labels at Sugar or total Carbo (with sugar) to determine if I need to consume it then at what minimal amount is acceptable. Assuming the package of candies is 500g but within that package, each candy wrapped with 15g each. For 15g, the sugar is 2.5g but in package of 500g is 82.5g which means I cannot consume the whole package! Most probably, 5 wrapped candy which is 12.5g (max of digested sucrose in my bloodstream). I could pop in 5 wrapped candy throughout the day (but not more than 5).
I mean you get the picture. Above measurement is a rough guide. I think 1 teaspoon sugar is 4g so anything more than 3 teaspoon is max out for the day ( equal to 12g). I'll consider as a self-disciplined control freak.
@maik_fried If the product adds this feature, please be sure to let me know. Once again, congrats on the successful launch!
Maker
@konrad_sx Yes! I am really glad that we are showing people the research papers, summarizing them with AI so that anyone can understand, and letting people decide for themselves what they think.
I like that we are making a product that empowers people's informed choices!
Congrats, a nice and practical use case! Do you consider it opening to other makets and languages too?
I hope your tech can be used with different languages too. đź––
I appreciate the honesty in the privacy policy about selling my data. "Sale of Data: We reserve the right to sell your data, including for marketing or other commercial purposes. By using the App, you consent to this potential sale of your data." and the corresponding data retention allowing you to keep my personal data for as long as you want to, for example, turn around and sell it. This ensures I will never sign up but, yes, i do appreciate it being spelled out. It says "potential" but, it's a free app, I assume the lights don't keep themselves on and devs don't tend to like to work for free.
Wow, this is such a need of the hour. However, I tried searching on Android in my country (India) but couldnt find it in there.
Are you planning to release the app in the EU?
I wonder if in the app, we can red flag ingredients too.
Additionally is it meant only for products that are meant to be eaten? Example: Cereals, sauces, etc.
Or can it be used also on beauty products, like shampoos, skin care, etc? I try to avoid buying products that have listed parfum/fragance in their ingredients, as in the US and in the EU it is known to be used by companies to hide chemicals, plastics, and other toxins that we use on a daily basis.
Congratz on the launch! The idea of the app is great and I'd really love to try it out, but unfortunately it says it's not available in my region (Ukraine). Is it possible to make the app available here? Would greatly appreciate it!
“App not available
The app is currently not available in your country or region”
Why?
I tried to install from Apple App Store!
@leanna_l @safehope22 @luciana_lara this is a fantastic idea and product. Thank you and congratulations.
When will the app be available for iOS in the US? (Assuming that’s not already a thing based on the App Store error message I just got)
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@marc_hummel2 Hey :) thanks for your interest, we’re hoping its up on the App Store in the USA tomorrow, we’ll send you an update when its out!
Maker
@onelocalfamily Hey Randy we're planning a release by tomorrow, I'll reply to you again when its out thanks for your enthusiasm!
I think that I already found my favourite product! :) Wish you good luck, Lea! :)
Congrats! It really saves me, because it's painful for me to remember so many ingredients that are not supposed to take. I will check it out.~
pom - Ingredient Checker