You can easily scan, search and compare products with the 'Kies Ik Gezond?' app from the Netherlands Nutrition Centre. In the supermarket or at home on the couch.
WITH THE APP:
1. Find healthier choices
2. See whether products are in the Wheel of Five
3. Easily compare products based on nutritional values, such as sugar, fat or salt
4. Can you set an ingredient or allergen that you want on pay attention
5. Can you pay attention to meat or fish
6. Add your products to My Eetmeter
SCAN AND SEARCH BARCODE: EASILY READ THE LABEL ON YOUR PHONE
Tired of the small print on the label? In the app you will see the nutritional values and ingredients when you scan the barcode of a product. You can also search for a product.
HEALTHIER CHOOSING: ALTERNATIVES IN A ROW
By default, you can see whether a product fits into the Wheel of Five or not. You will see healthier alternatives for products that do not fit into the Wheel of Five.
INGREDIENTS CHECKER: SET ALLERGEN OR INGREDIENT
Do you have an allergy or intolerance that you want to take into account? You simply select that you want to pay attention to gluten, milk, nuts, fish or another allergen.
You can also set other ingredients that you want to watch out for. Think of palm oil because of the environment. Or alcohol because of your health or pregnancy. You can select added sugars and salt, useful if you want to eat less sugar or salt. You can also use the checker if you don't like something.
WATCHING FOR MEAT OR FISH
Do you want to see whether a product contains meat or fish? Or that it is completely vegetarian? You can indicate this in your profile.
YOUR OWN SUPERMARKET: SEE RELEVANT PRODUCTS
You can indicate which supermarkets you do your shopping at. Then you will not see the own brands of other supermarkets when searching for a product.
WATCH NUTRITIONAL VALUES
You can indicate in the app which nutritional values you want to pay extra attention to. It concerns energy (calories), fats, saturated fats, carbohydrates, sugars, fibres, proteins and salt. The nutritional values that you find important will always be at the top of the app. Ideal if you want to eat less sugar, for example.
COMPARE PRODUCTS: EASY ASSESSMENT
With the Comparator in the app you can compare properties of up to 3 products. You can compare the nutritional values, for example the amount of sugar, salt or fat. You can also see whether the products are in the Wheel of Five.
SORTING: THE HEALTHIER CHOICE AT THE TOP
If you are looking for a product, you can sort the search results by nutritional values. This way you can easily see which product contains the least sugar, for example. You can also sort by alphabet or relevance.
FILTER: ONLY SEE WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR
If you're looking for a product, you can filter the search results. You can filter by Wheel of Five, supermarkets, brands, product categories and ingredients. For example, if you filter on Wheel of Five, you will only see the products that are in the Wheel of Five.
CREATE FAVORITES
Do you look up certain products very often? Favorite them and you will always find them again quickly.
LINK WITH MY FOOD METER: ADD PRODUCTS
If you use Mijn Eetmeter and have it as an app on your phone, you can easily add your product to your food diary.
