OneSweetApp Dor iOS Tracks Your Free Sugar Intake

How much sugar is too much? And what does all that sugar look like?

OneSweetApp for iPhone/iPad is a sugar tracker that tells you how much sugar is in your food, counts how many teaspoons of sugar you actually eat, and helps build a nutrition database with free sugar calculations.

What’s free sugar? There’s added sugar, but then there’s all the other stuff you didn’t know you were supposed to be worried about: juices, purees, concentrates, honey and all syrups. Stuff that‚Äôs now in 74 percent of packaged foods, but that nutrition labels do NOT explain.

However you can now scan products into OneSweetApp and help iOS a publicly available database of free sugar content of those foods. It’s a crowdsourcing campaign that doesn’t want your money. It wants your bar codes.

This is how it works:

Download the app (free)

Scan the barcode of a packaged food to check if it’s in the database, and if not:

Follow four easy steps

Sugar Coated’s nutrition team will calculate the free sugar and get foods available for tracking as quickly as they can, and working toward getting a clearer Nutrition Facts table from the Canadian government.

The truth is, we’re not supposed to eat more than 12 teaspoons of free sugar a day, and capping it at 6 teaspoons is even better according to the World Health Organization and the Heart & Stroke Foundation.

One Sweet App is brought to you by the makers of Sugar Coated, the documentary. It’s developed by Plank, in collaboration with the University of Toronto, Department of Nutritional Sciences, and produced with the participation of the TELUS Fund and TVO, in association with the Canada Media Fund.

This is an early release of the app. New features will be released over the coming weeks.

System Requirements:
iOS 8.1 or later.
Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch

For more information, visit:
http://sugarcoateddoc.com/the-app/

iTunes Store:
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/onesweetapp/id984621717?mt=8