Food packaging is designed to be persuasive, not informative. Nutrication reads what is actually there — the ingredients, the numbers, the processing — and gives you one honest grade for it.
Walk down any grocery aisle and you will be told that a cereal is “heart healthy,” that a bar is “made with real fruit,” that a drink is “naturally sweetened.” None of those phrases carries a fixed nutritional meaning. Meanwhile the actual information — the ingredient list, the per-100g numbers, the additives — sits in six-point type on the back of the box.
Nutrication was built to close that gap. Scan a barcode, a nutrition label, a plate of food, or an entire restaurant menu, and you get a single A–D grade with the full reasoning behind it: what helped, what hurt, and how confident the app is in the answer.
We do not invent our own nutrition science. Every grade is assembled from six independent, published frameworks — NOVA processing classification, Nutri-Score, ingredient and additive analysis, nutrient density, glycemic load, and fat quality — each weighted and combined into one 0–100 score.
The entire methodology is public. You can read exactly how the grade is calculated, including the point value of every measure, down to individual additive penalties.
No food company can pay to raise a grade, appear as a recommendation, or be excluded from criticism. There is no sponsored placement anywhere in the app, and there never will be.
When Nutrication suggests a healthier swap, it is because the numbers support it — not because a purchase pays us a commission.
If a measure cannot be computed from real data, the app marks it “not rated” and removes it from the grade rather than substituting a neutral placeholder. A confident-looking wrong number is worse than an honest gap.
Nutrication does not sort food into “clean” and “toxic.” A D-grade food is not poison, and an A-grade food is not a personality. The grade is information for a decision, not a moral verdict.
Nutrication is free to use, with a paid Pro subscription for unlimited AI scans, menu grading, and meal suggestions. Subscriptions and advertising on this website fund development. That model matters: because the revenue comes from the people using the app, we are accountable to them rather than to the brands being graded.
Grades rest on public food databases, printed labels, and AI estimation from photos. Databases contain errors, recipes change, and a photo cannot see inside a closed burrito — which is why the app asks you when it cannot tell. Restaurant estimates in particular are typical values for a dish, not measurements from that kitchen.
Always check the physical package for anything that truly matters, especially allergens. Nutrication is an educational tool, not medical advice, and it is not a substitute for guidance from a doctor or registered dietitian.
Found a grade that looks wrong? Spotted a data error? Want to ask how something is calculated? We read every message — contact us here.