pom - Ingredient Checker
Scan products to avoid harmful or unwanted ingredients.
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Lea L

pom - Scan products to avoid harmful or unwanted ingredients

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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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Lea L
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🍎 Hey Product Hunt! 👋 We're excited to launch pom, an ingredient checker app that empowers you to make informed decisions on the products you put in and on your body. There are many ingredients allowed into our everyday products that have concerning evidence linking them to being harmful to human health. That's why we made pom. To further the efforts in ingredient transparency. We are 100% independent and are backed by science, giving you the ability to see the full scientific picture (the good and the bad). pom also allows for customization, letting you decide what's important to you. Give pom a try and start scanning for peace of mind today! P.S. we're still in the early stages so any feedback is greatly appreciated :)
Sham Kuram
@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.
jose lara
Maker

@rashmisham69 

This is a really interesting idea, have you found an app right now that addresses your need? would love to stay in touch with you given such great insight you are providing!

Zhiqi Shi
Congrats! My kids have some allergens, that also seems quite suitable for this product. May I ask if it's possible to set those ingredients?
Zhiqi Shi
@maik_fried If the product adds this feature, please be sure to let me know. Once again, congrats on the successful launch!
jose lara
Maker

@zhiqi_shi Hey, yes you can add your allergens in the product, however, given that there is an error rate albeit low, we do not advice you use our product to treat allergens.

jose lara
Maker

@zhiqi_shi  You know as a parent you might be inclined to try our Childhood Development Risk Tag,

We've curated a list of research papers, and ingredients which have demonstrable risk for the development of children.

With parent's in mind we created this feature so that you can easily filter out those products out of your cart, and instead choose ones which are safer for children.

Would be glad to offer you free access.

Abdullah Adeeb
“App not available The app is currently not available in your country or region” Why? I tried to install from Apple App Store!
Konrad S.
This sure is an important project! And looks promising, will check it out. Especially I like that it links to scientific literature.
jose lara
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!
Nika
I think that I already found my favourite product! :) Wish you good luck, Lea! :)
jose lara
Maker
@busmark_w_nika Amazing! thank you for your positivity and enthusiasm! :D
Nika
@safehope22 always! :DDDDD
Lance Gilliland
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.
X X
@lagilliland1 exactly why I won’t be signing up as well—staying with yuka
Michael Talreja
@leanna_l @safehope22 @luciana_lara this is a fantastic idea and product. Thank you and congratulations.
Evak Chan
Love the concept! pom is highly beneficial for health-conscious and ingredient-sensitive consumers including those with allergies and pregnant women. It’s very thoughtful.
jose lara
Maker

@evakk Thanks!

KayeChen
It's an app well-suited for developing healthy habits. It also offers study insights, helping us make safer choices effortlessly. Congrats on your great work!
jose lara
Maker
@wellwhale Thanks! :D
Randy Levitch
Nice, timely app idea! USA app store says not available in this region?
luciana lara
Maker
@onelocalfamily Hey Randy we're planning a release by tomorrow, I'll reply to you again when its out thanks for your enthusiasm!
Tyler Williams
This is great. Will it work for finding gluten? I have celiac :(
jose lara
Maker

@tylerw Hey one of our co-founders also avoids gluten.

Unfortunately, we don't have a gluten identification feature, it's actually quite a hard problem, because it isnt always clear what does and doesn't have gluten, However this seems like an important problem to solve.

Have you found a different app that could help you here?

Ethan Goh
Thats actually really helpful, may I know if if pom will translate the ingredients language when I scan a language other than english ?
jose lara
Maker

@ethan50 I believe it will translate it.

Mesut YILMAZ
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. 🖖
Tony Crockford
When will it come to the UK?
luciana lara
Maker
@tony_crockford1 We will slowly roll out international releases to ensure compliancy. We hope to be available in the UK soon. Thank you for your interest we're working hard to make this app useful for everyone
Jonathan
Yuka already does this and serves my needs. how is this app different?
luciana lara
Maker
@dryhurst Good question, pom scans ingredient labels instead of bar codes so that the contents of the scanned products are always available and up to date. Our scoring system is also heavily based on research papers and individual ingredient flags :D If theres any features you'd like to see please let us know!
jose lara
Maker

@dryhurst Hey! we have a technically superior product, if you go on reddit you will find out people complain that scanning the same product give's different results, this is because they are working with products in their database instead of ingredients.

Due to that and other fundamental technology decisions they made, they have an impossible task of giving people accurate results.

pom has the right tech to truly offer people accurate results, and always have the capability of scan products even if its a new product nobody had ever seen.

Ignacio
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.
Marc Hummel
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)
luciana lara
Maker
@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!
Stas Hladki
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!
Kyle Kenyon
Do you have a release date for Android (US)?
luciana lara
Maker
@ptg We're planning to release to the US store tomorrow. I'll send you a reply when its out, thanks for your interest🍎
Justin Jincaid
Congrats on the launch! Looks like Pom is a great tool.