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).
Download Statistics
NHS Food Scanner has been downloaded 990 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 3.1 thousand times. It is ranked #138 in health & fitness.
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App Information
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.
Technical Requirements
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!
So it's time to get scanning! Just find a food or drink barcode or use the in-app search functionality to quickly reveal what's inside. You might be surprised by what you find!
Be amazed with the Augmented Reality within the app that brings to life the sugar, sat fat and salt in your food and drink right in front of your eyes!
The app is based on the most widespread data available to us. We're continuously working to improve it and we're adding more and more products all the time. The nutrient data in this app has been supplied and check by our partners at Brandbank and Food Switch and is updated weekly.
The number of sugar cubes, sat fat and salt sachets shown in app are based on grams per pack/100g/ml/portion when that information is available.
The weight of one sugar cube is equal to 4 grams The weight on one sat fat lump is equal to 1 gram The weight of one salt sachet is equal to 0.5 grams
It's now time to get Scanning!
Recent changes: Under-the-hood updates to maintain performance and improve security and stability.
Bug fixes to ensure the app provides clear visual and audible cues for alerts, notifications, and errors. Improved accessibility: objects, elements, and controls are now correctly announced by screen readers.
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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.
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