Primo Vegan: Food Label Check

Vegetarian ingredient checker

Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

Point the camera at the ingredients panel or the barcode. Primo Vegan names the gelatin, whey or carmine that decided the answer, and keeps vegan and vegetarian apart. Primo Vegan reads what is printed on a food package and tells you what the label declares. Point the camera at the ingredients panel, or at the barcode, and you get one of four answers: no animal ingredients found, vegetarian but not vegan, not vegetarian, or cannot determine. Every answer names the ingredient that decided it. THE INGREDIENT THAT DECIDED IT A scanner that says "not vegan" and stops there leaves you guessing. Primo Vegan names the gelatin, the carmine, the whey or the honey that changed the answer, so the decision stays yours. VEGAN AND VEGETARIAN ARE TWO ANSWERS Milk, egg, honey, beeswax and lanolin come from a living animal. Gelatin, carmine, isinglass and animal rennet do not. Most scanners collapse the two into one red flag. Primo Vegan keeps them apart, because for a lot of shoppers that is the whole question. WHEN THE DATABASE HAS NEVER SEEN THE PRODUCT Barcode databases are large and still incomplete. Store brands, regional lines and new packaging fall outside them. When a barcode returns nothing, Primo Vegan reads the printed ingredients panel from your photo instead, so the scan still ends in an answer. WHEN THE APP DOES NOT KNOW Some ingredients never state their origin. Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids (E471), natural flavouring, vitamin D3 and L-cysteine (E920) can be animal or plant. Primo Vegan says cannot determine and names the ingredient, instead of guessing in either direction. WHAT A SCAN GIVES YOU - The verdict in plain words, with the ingredient behind it - Vegan and vegetarian as separate answers, never merged - Every ingredient marked plant based, animal but vegetarian, not vegetarian, or unknown - Any vegan or vegetarian claim printed on the pack, shown beside the verdict - "May contain" statements quoted exactly as they appear - Barcode lookup and label reading from the same shutter press - Your scan history kept on the device WHAT THIS APP IS NOT Primo Vegan reports what a label declares. It does not certify anything, and it cannot see what a label does not print. Processing aids such as bone char in sugar refining or isinglass in wine fining are never declared on the pack, which is why a clean ingredient list reads "No animal ingredients found" and never "Vegan". This is not an allergy tool. A vegan answer is not a dairy-free or an egg-free medical answer. "May contain milk" statements are shown but do not change the verdict, because a shared production line is not an ingredient. If you are managing an allergy, read the pack and follow medical advice. Always check the pack. A photo is sent for reading only after you allow it, and it is not retained. Primo Vegan Premium unlocks unlimited scans and is offered as a weekly and as a yearly subscription, each with a 3-day free trial. The price is shown in the app before you confirm. A subscription renews until it is cancelled in your App Store account settings. Product data comes from Open Food Facts, made available under the Open Database License (ODbL). See https://openfoodfacts.org Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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Seller
Primo Technology d.o.o.
Size
19.1 MB
Category
Food & Drink
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
  • iPhone
    Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
  • iPad
    Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
  • iPod touch
    Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
  • Mac
    Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
  • Apple Vision
    Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Languages
English
Age Rating
4+
In-App Purchases
Yes
  • Primo Vegan Premium - Yearly $29.99
  • Primo Vegan Premium - Weekly $7.99
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Copyright
© Primo Technology Ltd.
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