French programmers have developed a mobile application called Open Food Facts, which will help buyers learn more about the product they are going to buy.

They called their development “Wikipedia”. The user must scan the composition of the product, and the app will evaluate it in two parameters: the usefulness of its composition and the degree of technological processing. Developers believe that based on these two indicators, the buyer will be able to choose the most useful food. For example, the smaller the product of the harmful ingredients (too much salt or sugar) and the less he was subjected to technological treatment – the better he is for health.

Product data from the European Food Safety Authority. Users will also be able to add the product themselves if it is not in the database. At the moment, the application contains information on 662,000 products.