pom - Ingredient Checker
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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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Tyler Williams
This is great. Will it work for finding gluten? I have celiac :(
jose lara
Maker

@tylerwΒ 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

@ethan50Β 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. πŸ––
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

@dryhurstΒ 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.
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