Scan a product or read a label
Look a packaged product up by barcode, and photograph the label when nothing knows it.
Looking up a barcode
Choose Scan from the bar along the bottom of the workspace.
On the web you type the digits rather than pointing a camera at the pack — the field reads Type the digits under the barcode, and Look up fetches it. The phone app has a real scanner.
A barcode has one right answer, so Orsola looks the product up instead of guessing from its name. What comes back is the product card: the nutrition, the ingredients, what the pack is High in where that applies, the Origin where it states one, and your own allergen verdict.
When nothing knows the product
We don't know this product yet. Photograph the label to add it yourself.
Choose Photograph the label and Orsola reads the pack itself: the Nutrition Facts panel, the serving size, and the ingredient list. That becomes your own food — it is kept for you and is there the next time.
Get the panel and the ingredient list both in the frame. The ingredient list is what the allergen check runs against, so a photo that crops it gives you a verdict of Unknown rather than a confident wrong one.
Orsola copies what is printed rather than tidying it up. A rewritten ingredient list is a changed one, and a verdict is only as honest as the words behind it. Anything it cannot read, it leaves out instead of guessing.
Check it against the pack in your hand
Labels get photographed at an angle, under glare, on a curved surface. Look at the serving size in particular: a panel quoted per 100 g and a panel quoted per serving are different numbers, and which one the pack uses decides what your log ends up saying.
If the look-up and the pack disagree, the pack wins — photograph the label and use that.
Logging it
Log it on the product card turns it into a draft like any other meal: set the amount, check it, then confirm. Log a meal covers the draft and how to correct it.
What you have looked up before
The Foods tab keeps a Scan history — the products you have looked up, and what each one said at the time. It is kept because "it told me this one was fine" is a question worth being able to answer afterwards.
Saved meals sits beside it, for the things you log again and again.
Where to go next
Allergies, and what the verdicts mean explains the wording on the card, and why none of it ever says "safe".