New Smartphone App Accesses Nutritional Data on 80,000 U.K. Food Items

A  "traffic light"-based nutrition data smartphone app known as FoodSwitch has been launched in the U.K. The app, developed by the Consensus Action on Salt and Health, provides nutritional advice on 80,000 packaged foods and drinks. Using their smartphone cameras and the new app in the supermarket, shoppers scan barcodes on food packages to access traffic light color-coded nutritional data based on the front-of-pack hybrid coding model. FoodSwitch is a free, U.K.-only download from iTunes and Google Play for Apple and Android devices.