The soaring popularity of smartphone apps that scan barcodes on food products to provide health scores are empowering consumers and shifting dynamics in the food industry, recent studies suggest.

Instead, more and more consumers are turning to an algorithm that combines level of processing with nutritional content. By ...

Using image processing technology, bar code scanning apps rely on the device's built-in camera to decode information from bar or QR codes. They can prove useful in a variety of applications ...

Food apps can help you figure out what's in your food and whether it's nutritious. Just scan the barcode on the packet with ...

Google’s Circle to Search is reportedly getting another new capability that will enable it to scan QR codes and barcodes. The artificial intelligence (AI) visual lookup feature, which made its ...

Unlike some of the fake or malicious Android apps we cover on occasion, Barcode to Sheet is a legitimate productivity app. Google Play shows that the app has been downloaded over 100,000 times and ...

Since Fitbit dropped compatibility with the Deezer and Pandora apps, Spotify is the best Fitbit music service. Don’t be fooled by its name! Barcodes is not an app that scans products.

All four apps have a feature that lets shoppers scan an item's barcode to determine how Canadian it is. "We saw on social media a lot of different lists of products being shared. They were not ...

Food barcode scanner apps such as the French-made Yuka that provide nutritional ratings based on a products' ingredients are soaring in popularity, empowering consumers and prompting the food ...