Answers, even when the database doesn't Open Food Facts is sometimes slow or down. The app now also asks our own database: products other readers sent in, and that we checked against their photo, can always be looked up. And on a weak signal, the app no longer hangs for minutes. Scan the barcode when you send in a product No more typing 13 digits off a curved package. Tap the barcode button and your phone fills in the number. One swapped digit used to be enough to file a correct ingredient list under the wrong product. Recipes change - now the app says so Answers built on a package another reader scanned now show when it was read. If that was more than six months ago, you no longer get a green answer, but a nudge to read the package yourself. And if the answer doesn't match the package in your hand, tap "Doesn't match the package?" and we hide the old answer until we have looked at it. Your photo, your choice When you photograph a product's ingredient list yourself, the photo is now only sent to us if you tap "Share this reading". It used to be sent automatically. This is now how our privacy policy always said it would be. More accurate answers "May contain traces of gluten" is now caught even when the warning names gluten rather than a specific grain. Oats labelled gluten-free no longer get a wrong red answer. The app also reads Romanian ingredient lists.

We spent this release on what you wrote to us about. PHOTOGRAPH IT INSTEAD OF TYPING IT When a product is missing from the database, you can now photograph the ingredient list as you submit it. Your phone reads the text and you only correct what came out wrong. Nobody types out a whole ingredient list. EVERY PAGE OF THE LABEL When the text wraps around a tin, take several photos. Before, only the first was used - the rest disappeared without a word. WE SAY SO WHEN WE COULDN'T READ IT If the text comes back as loose fragments, you are told and asked for another photo, instead of a calm "nothing found" on something we could not read. WHY AN INGREDIENT IS UNCERTAIN "Flavouring", "starch", "yeast extract" - now it says why they are unresolved, and what the rules are where you shop. Free. THE STALE DATA WARNING IS NOW FREE If the database information is over a year old, everyone is told. A barcode does not change when the recipe does. OATS ARE YOUR CHOICE In Settings you can choose to avoid oats entirely. Certified gluten-free oats then turn yellow instead of green - the gluten test does not cover avenin. MORE LISTS (PRO) Split your products into separate lists - sweets, snacks, dinners - and send just the one that's needed. Plus: copy the ingredient list with one tap, and a few more hidden gluten names in the vocabulary.