Natural Yield Food Scanner: Your Ultimate Food Guide. Personalized. Private. Powerful.

Welcome to the Natural Yield Food Scanner, the groundbreaking app designed to put you in control of your diet and health, with absolute peace of mind. In a world brimming with complex food choices, we offer fast, personalized answers – all while safeguarding your most sensitive information.

What is the Food Scanner App?

The Food Scanner App is your personalised Food Health Assistant, where you can:

  • Scan food barcodes for easy to read Ingredients, Allergens and Nutrition
  • Compare Prices - Aldi, Coles & Woolworths
  • Find alternative products between stores
  • Be informed on Ingredients and Nutrition
  • Plan your shopping list between stores

Tailor it to your health and diet preferences so that every scan, search and analysis you do is done with you in mind.

Your Health Profile. Your Phone. Total Privacy Guaranteed

We believe your health data is yours alone. That's why your personal health profile – including diet preferences, food allergies, intolerances, and health conditions – stay completely anonymous and secure. We never collect or store any information that can identify you such as your name, address, phone number or email address.

Elderly Person Using Food Scanner App In Store

Instant Insights, Just for You

  • Rapid Suitability Indicators: Get immediate, personalized feedback on how well a food aligns with your specific health profile, right from your phone.
  • Comprehensive Details: Easy access to crucial information like ingredients, detailed nutrition facts, and country of origin – vital for informed decisions.
  • 7-Star Health Rating: A quick, at-a-glance rating that gives you a clear understanding of a food's overall 'healthiness.'

AI-Powered Knowledge & Accessibility for All

  • Expanded Knowledge: Ask our AI about specific ingredients, potential allergens, and discover smart ingredient alternatives for healthier swaps.
  • Eyesight Friendly Mode: We're committed to accessibility. Our unique 'Eyesight Friendly' mode provides visual enhancements, text-to-speech (TTS) for reading out information, and speech-to-text (STT) for voice commands, ensuring everyone can navigate their diet with ease.

Price Comparisons

  • Check prices between Aldi, Coles and Woolworths stores
  • See current savings and specials
  • Search for exact or similar products between stores

Empower Your Every Meal

Natural Yield Food Scanner is more than an app; it's your personal, private, and powerful guide to a healthier lifestyle. Make confident food choices, understand what you're eating like never before, and take control of your well-being.

Food Scanner does have its own website which we will be expanding.

Designed to be Eyesight Friendly from the Start

It is hard for many people to read ingredients, nutrition and country of origin information on labels. Food Producers are more interested in their sales pitch and hiding the important stuff. For people with poor eyesight it's almost impossible. The Food Scanner App was designed to be Eyesight Friendly at its inception. We use high contrast colours with large fonts as well as easy to use Microphone and Audio sounds and voice options.

The Importance Of Food Transparency

Food Scanner App Availability

Food Scanner has been in development for 6 months and we are now in Alpha Testing stage, which is a release to a limited group of testers (mostly internal to Natural Yield).

We are planning on entering the Beta Testing stage in February 2026.  You can register to become an Beta Tester via the form to the right.

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What is Food Transparency?

Food transparency is the ability to track a food product and its ingredients throughout the supply chain, from production to distribution and retail sales.

We believe that food transparency is also concerned with understanding what ingredients are (exactly), how they were made, and ultimately addresses the consumers right to know.  You can read more in our Food Transparency article.

Why is Food Transparency important?

Whether intentional or not food, packaging can be both deceptive and discriminatory. 

Deceptive because packaging most often prioritises making the sale vs accurate information, and very often hides the information that you have the right to see.

Discriminatory because hard to read and ambiguous ingredient labels discriminate against vulnerable groups such as people with poor eyesight, food allergens and intolerances, and people on specific diets such as kosher, halal or FODMAP.


How does Food Scanner work?

We do our best to hide all the hard-stuff and present the user with a intuitive mobile app to use it.

In Store Example
In the most common use-case, a person is on a store, scans a barcode with Food Scanner, and up pops a screen with immediate information on ingredients, allergens, nutrition, country of origin, and health score.  You can then get detailed information on each ingredient and nutrition item, compare prices in other stores, find alternatives, and generate recipes.

Plan Your Shop Example
At home you can use the Food Scanner app to create your shopping list, easily comparing options across stores, tailor which stores you want to buy from, group by store and food category so you have an efficient shop.


Other Questions People Ask


Why does Food Scanner Compare Prices?
We spend a lot of time getting all the other information about the product, so why not the price as well?  This seemed like a natural extension to the app that will appeal to many people.  It wasn't our initial priority, but it is very useful.

How do we keep it up-to-date?
We rely on both technology and people to keep the dataset up-to-date.  Where we need people to help the most is helping us identify missing products or products with missing information.  This is where our Food Scouts program comes in, and is an option for you to sign up for as well.

Why don't we also include independent stores like IGA? 

We would love to but because they are independently owned and operated they can have very different products from store to store, which makes it a lot harder to keep up to date with their inventory.  So, for now we are not focusing on them.  

Even with the Aldi, Coles and Woolworths there are variations from store to store. e.g.. local egg farmers supply eggs to their local stores.

Why do we not support Apple iPhone yet?
We will.  It is just easier to develop a product for Android first and then port it to Apple iPhone.  We anticipate starting to do that between April and June 2026.

Food Scanner App Beta Tester Registration

Interested in being a Food Scanner Beta Tester?

We have limited spots left (less than 100)

What will you use Food Scanner for?

Food Scanner has many features, and we need to have a good cross-section of people that can test those features.

Health Profile includes your specific diet preferences(a specific diet (eg. keto) , allergens you want to exclude, ingredients you want to exclude and country of origin's you want to exclude)

Important Things to Know

Benefits: Active Alpha Testers qualify for 12 months of free use to Food Scanner when it is  released publicly.

Requirements. 

  1. Beta Testers must have a recent (last 2 years) Android phone.  iPhones are not supported in this round of Beta Testing.
  2. The email address you provide must be real and must be one use for your Google Play Store downloads
  3. We can have a maximum of 100 testers.  Therefore, if you are not actively testing we will remove you from the test group so we can fill the slot with an active tester.
  4. The app has a built-in feedback system that allows you to submit feedback and chat with us.  It's completely anonymous.

 

How we protect your privacy: 

  1. The Food Scanner platform does not store any personal information (name, email, phone, address, financial info etc).  We don't want it and we don't ask for it.
  2. For tester registration purposes we need your email so we can add it the Food Scanner Apps Google Play Store allowed list of test users. 
  3. We deliberately cannot and would not associate your email address with your Food Scanner profile. 
  4. Any Food Scanner app installed creates a 16 character random user id that complexly anonymises the user.  We add a 12 month free tag to any user id created during the beta testing period.

 

Sounds Good, Sign me up!

Optional:  Join the Food Scout Program


We also need a small but dedicated group of people to join our Food Scout program. 

There are several activities Food Scouts get involved with including:
a) scanning food products that we don't have in our database yet
b) correcting products that may have the quality we need (eg. product images or missing information)
c) reporting incorrect, conflicting or misleading information on Food Labels (eg. ambiguous country of origin or conflicting barcodes)