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The free GoodGuide application from GoodGuide Inc. for Android and iPhone rates thousands of products on a zero-to-10 scale to indicate whether they are “healthy, safe, green and socially responsible.”
Get the rating by scanning a barcode from within the app. It also lets you fine-tune results by setting personal preferences on a range of matters such as nutrition, “controversial ingredients” and impact on climate change.
The app is supposed to have data on more than 120,000 products.
Unfortunately, they didn’t include many already in my kitchen. The box of Lucky Charms on my shelf had a middling 5.8 overall score.
But the app identified a jar of black pepper as Old Spice body spray.
Reid Kanaley, The Philadelphia Inquirer
