Scandaluz reads a barcode and gives you two honest numbers — and tells you exactly where each one came from.
The argument
Feeling like the organic label is enough is so 2000.
A food can be organic and still be wrapped in three layers of plastic, flown across a hemisphere, and made by people who were not paid properly for it. One certification on the front of a box has come to stand in for a whole set of questions it never actually answered.
So our grade takes the wider view — what is in it, what it is wrapped in, what it cost the world to make, and who was paid fairly along the way. Judged that way, plenty of products that feel virtuous come out middling. That is not us being harsh. That is the rest of the picture arriving.
We would rather a maker looked at a mediocre grade on a genuinely organic product and asked "what else could we do better?" than collect one badge and stop.
How we grade
Tap either one in the app and it opens its own workings — every source we checked, and every one we could not.
Recall databases only — FDA, CPSC, USDA. 100% means every applicable one was reachable and clear. If one is down, the number drops and we say which.
Nutrition and processing on one side; packaging, footprint, organic and fair trade on the other. The whole picture, not one badge.
A lotion has no Nutri-Score, so the gauge becomes Properties & Impact and answers a different question: what the label declares, checked against the lists the EU publishes — banned substances, restricted ones, and the 26 fragrance allergens that must be named by law.
When something on the same shelf is genuinely better — on nutrition and on footprint, not one at the expense of the other — we show it, with the reasons. Never because anyone paid us.
Photograph the packet. We read the label and build the page, for you and for whoever scans it next. Every free product database is full of holes; the thing in your hand is not.
The honesty rules
A confident score resting on checks that did not run is worse than no score at all. So there are three different ways of saying "we don't know", and we use all of them.
The other half
A barcode is an address in the physical world. Scandaluz lets you attach a message to one — a video on a bottle of wine for the person you are giving it to, a note on a jar only your family will find.
A personal message always plays first. Never behind an advert. And a private message is locked to the person it was left for.
Nothing to install. Open it, point the camera at a barcode, and see.
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