The most fans of nutrition already keep a healthy diet At the table you already have another help at your fingertips. The The CoCo app allows you to find out the nutritional quality of each food you buy, following the two systems par excellence of the labeled: Nutriscore and NOVA. So, from your smartphone you can quickly know the strengths and weaknesses of the product. A useful tool to take home a purchase full of healthy food.
How does this El CoCo app work?
The mobile application is really simple and with its slogan to introduce itself to the user, it invites you to discover "if what you eat is healthy". His name is also very encouraging of his goal, as the The CoCo app uses the first two words of Conscious Consumer. Always so that, in the supermarket or at home, you scan the barcodes of food products.
Instantly, you get three interesting types of data. The first thing is your classification in Nutriscore (A, B, C, D or E) and also the degree of processing, depending on NEW. This last nutritional system classifies foods into four groups, from the 1 to 4, from more to less healthy. This assessment is based on the level of fats, added sugars and salt that contains the product, something that you can also check just below.
Also the The CoCo app provides you with all the nutritional information per 100 grams of product, although these data are usually already on the packaging. However, a positive aspect of this virtual tool is that each scan is stored in your history. You can easily check the quality and defects of a certain food without the need for a new scan. The bad thing is you can't search for it directly, so if you have a long list ...
Collaborative application and against deceptive marketing
The authors of the The CoCo app they ask users for a little help to improve the performance of the tool. Therefore, it is a sharing economy app which also invites you to contact them to send photos of those food not included. Thus, none of your usual purchase is missing.
On the other hand, the idea of the creators is also aimed at avoid that misleading marketing information used by brands. They encourage you to purchase their products, using many times slogans or confusing images. They are actually trying to take advantage of the positive in food, not how healthy it is for you. Hence it is The CoCo app help to detect that aspect. Do you want to eat healthier now? Install this app on Google Play Store!
