Know what's in your food

Scan a label. Read the research. Decide for yourself.

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CAPTURE

Scan a barcode

Point the camera at any packaged food. Olua pulls the product and reads its full ingredient list in seconds.

BROWSE

Search by name

No package in hand? Type the product or ingredient and browse straight into its breakdown.

SCAN

Photograph the label

On-device OCR lifts the printed ingredient panel — no barcode required, even on imported or unlisted products.

BREAKDOWN

Every ingredient, sorted

Every ingredient lands on a three-tier scale — ○ ◐ ● — built from how much scrutiny it's drawn in the literature and where regulators stand.

DETECT

Allergens, flagged for you

Set the FDA Big-9 plus gluten and your diet. Matches surface at the top, before anything else.

ASK

Ask Olua

Ask Olua about any additive and get a clear, research-backed answer with its sources.

Scan
Align the barcode in frame
Reading product…
Photograph label
On-device text recognition
Reading 14 ingredients…
Ingredients
14 found · tap any to expand
Riboflavin
Few or no flags
Citric acid
Few or no flags
Caramel color IV
Mixed / limited evidence
Potassium bromate
Restricted in some regions
For your profile
⚠️
Contains: Wheat, Soy
Matches 2 of your allergen settings
🌱
Not vegan
Contains whey (milk-derived)
Checked on-device · your profile never leaves the phone
Ask Olua
Why is potassium bromate flagged?
It's been studied for toxicity and carcinogenicity, and is banned for food use in the EU, UK, Canada and others.↳ Environ Health Perspect, 1990
Interactive

The three-tier ingredient lens

Olua groups ingredients based on how much scrutiny they've drawn in the literature and their regulatory record. Tap a tier to explore — tap any ingredient for its rationale and citation.

Tier One
Long-established · low concern
Tier Two
Mixed / limited evidence or transparency questions
Tier Three
Heavily flagged · restricted in some regions

Every flag traces to a paper

220+ additives mapped to verified PubMed citations and the regulatory record that follows.

Potassium bromate
E924 · Flour treatment agent
● Stronger flags
"Toxicity and carcinogenicity of potassium bromate"
Environmental Health Perspectives · 1990
Verified PubMed citation
Banned · EUUKCanada BrazilChinaIndia

Tuned to you, on your device

Your allergens and diet shape every result — and the history that powers it stays on your phone.

🥜Big-9 + gluten

Surfaces the FDA Big-9 allergens and gluten at the very top of every result.

MilkEggFishShellfishTree nutsPeanutsWheatSoySesameGluten

🥦Diet-aware

Make Olua familiar with your diet — set vegan or vegetarian and Olua flags animal-derived ingredients and hidden by-products as it decodes.

📂On-device history

Scans and preferences stay on your phone — visit your history to refresh your memory on a specific food label or ingredient you've inquired about, no need to scan again.

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