Health Insights
FactsScan’s tips for a healthier diet
Top Food Ingredients You Should Avoid for Better Gut Health
Your gut microbiome is the foundation of your overall wellness, affecting everything from digestion to immune function. Yet many everyday food ingredients—artificial sweeteners, refined oils, emulsifiers, and preservatives—are slowly damaging this delicate ecosystem. Learn which harmful ingredients to eliminate from your diet and discover healthier alternatives using smart tools to identify nutritious, gut-friendly options that truly support your digestive health and long-term wellbeing.
How to Identify Healthy Snacks Using the FactsScan App
Discover how the FactsScan App helps you make smarter snacking choices by instantly analyzing ingredients, nutrition scores, and additives. Learn how this AI-powered tool identifies truly healthy snacks and guides you toward better food decisions with just one scan.
Every Shopper Needs This Game-Changing Product Ingredients Checker App
Tired of confusing food labels and hidden ingredients? This game changing product ingredients checker app helps shoppers instantly scan barcodes to uncover real nutritional facts, health scores, and safer alternatives, making smarter, healthier shopping easier than ever.
Saturated Fat vs Unsaturated Fat: Which Is Healthier?
Saturated and unsaturated fats affect our health in different ways. While saturated fats—commonly found in meat, butter, and full-fat dairy—can increase cholesterol levels, unsaturated fats, present in nuts, seeds, and vegetable oils, help improve heart health. Prioritizing unsaturated fats over saturated ones can lead to better overall wellness.
How to Identify Healthy Packaged Snacks in Seconds
Finding healthy packaged snacks is challenging when clever marketing disguises nutrition facts and confusing labels hide harmful ingredients. Smart shoppers can decode labels instantly using simple nutrition checks, ingredient red flags, and powerful food scanning apps like FactsScan that reveal health scores, ingredient warnings, and suggest better alternatives with just a quick barcode scan.
How to Know if Packaged Food is Healthy?
With rising consumption of packaged foods and misleading marketing claims, understanding what makes processed food truly healthy has become essential. This guide covers practical strategies for reading nutrition labels, identifying harmful additives, avoiding marketing tricks, and using modern tools to make informed food choices for better health outcomes.
Introducing Swadeshi Tag: Celebrate Made in India Products with FactsScan
FactsScan introduces the Swadeshi Tag, a revolutionary feature that instantly identifies Indian-made products through barcode scanning. This empowers health-conscious consumers to support local brands while making informed nutritional choices, combining the power of health awareness with national pride to create a stronger, healthier India.
All You Need to Know About Food Dyes: Harmful vs Harmless
Food dyes are synthetic or natural colorants added to enhance food appearance and attractiveness. While artificial food dyes may pose health risks like hyperactivity in children and allergies, natural alternatives from plants and minerals offer safer options. Understanding labels and choosing wisely helps protect your family's health.
Monosodium Glutamate (MSG): Myths vs Facts
MSG is a safe food additive approved by FDA, WHO, and other health authorities worldwide. Common myths about headaches and health risks stem from debunked studies and cultural bias. Scientific research shows MSG poses no significant health threats when consumed normally. The FactsScan app helps identify MSG in packaged foods for informed dietary choices.
