NHS Food Scanner

4.0.0

Department of Health and Social Care (Digital)

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500,000+
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Bring the sugar, sat fat and salt to life and really see inside your food.

About NHS Food Scanner

NHS Food Scanner is a health & fitness app developed by Department of Health and Social Care (Digital).

How many times has NHS Food Scanner been downloaded?

NHS Food Scanner has been downloaded 990 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 4 thousand times.

What is the rating of NHS Food Scanner?

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Is NHS Food Scanner free?

NHS Food Scanner is free to download. The APK download size is 73.51 MB. The latest version available is 4.0.0. The last update was on February 9, 2026.

What are the requirements for NHS Food Scanner?

NHS Food Scanner requires Android 9.0+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play December 2016.

Description

Ever wondered how much sugar is in your favourite cola or how much salt is in your sauce you are adding to your meals? Find out and discover healthier choices with the NHS Food Scanner app!

More data about NHS Food Scanner

Price	Free to download
Total downloads	990 thousand
Recent downloads	4 thousand
Rating	No ratings
Ranking	Medium ranked
Version	4.0.0
APK size	73.5 MB
Number of libraries	27
Designed for Android	9.0+
Suitable for	Everyone
Ads	NO ads

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Downloads over time

NHS Food Scanner has been downloaded 990 thousand times. Over the past 30 days, it averaged 130 downloads per day.

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Comments on NHS Food Scanner for Android

★★★★☆ Ziggy Newman · May 20, 2025

Good app but misleading at times. Overall this is a helpful app for making healthy choices when it comes to diet. However, it completely misses harmful artificial sweeteners (which are worse than sugar) and implies that Coke Zero and sugar-free fizzy drinks are nutritious choices when they are far from it. Overall a great app but I would expand on the traffic light system to include artificial sweeteners so better health choices can be made overall.

★★★★★ Beverley Brown · Mar 6, 2025

This app tells me how good or bad the products I buy are for me. It's really good. I can also see how much sugar, fat and salt are inmost products.

★★★★★ Evelyn Wallace · Feb 26, 2025

I've have just found this app, as I am diabetic and been told by my surgeon that if I don't get my sugar levels lower, he won't do my operation. This app is amazing...! Just point my phone at a food item, and I know exactly what's in it. Love it. Here's to my new hip.

★★★★★ Andrew Butcher · Jan 13, 2026

Great app for checking food items for fat and sugar.

★☆☆☆☆ J H · Jan 14, 2026

Doesn't recognize most of the food I've scanned, so really it's a waste of NHS money and just useless.

★☆☆☆☆ Manfred · Jan 9, 2026

An interesting and potentially useful app that provides basic "Traffic Lights" for Sugar, Sat fat and Salt. However, Swaps advice ignores UPF completely, so is potentially harmful. The first two products I scanned were a "borderline" NOVA4 Shepherd's Pie (the one UPF being Yeast Extract) and a NOVA3 (UPF-free) Thai Green Chicken Curry. AI told me they were high-quality real foods, but this app suggested I should swap both of them for alternative products that were NOVA4 UPFs on multiple counts.

★☆☆☆☆ Annemarie Lee · Jul 27, 2025

The scanner is rubbish. If you simply want to stay informed and see what ingredients are in a food, this app DOES NOT DO THIS. Instead, it offers "swaps" my friend has diet restrictions, I tried to use this to scan something and all it did was show a "swap" which was, I kid you not SUGAR CUBES. THIS APP IS RUBBISH.

Google Play Rankings for NHS Food Scanner

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Rank	Country	Category	List
116	United Kingdom	Health & Fitness	Top Free

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