Clean food scanner

Know what's
really in
your food.

Scan any barcode. Get a Clean Score. Plain-language analysis of what's actually in your food — no dietary agenda, no wellness jargon.

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Organic Rolled Oats
Myllyn Paras
100
One ingredient. Congratulations — you found actual food.
Low sugar NOVA 1
Pepsi Max
Pepsi
42
Six additives orchestrating the illusion of cola without sugar or nourishment.
NOVA 4 6 additives
Nutella
Ferrero
18
Palm oil and sugar with a light dusting of hazelnut for plausible deniability.
High sugar Palm oil
Processing level, not dietary ideology Butter scores well. Refined seed oils don't. NOVA framework + peer-reviewed research Built by food safety experts The cocktail effect is real Finland · Sweden · Norway · Denmark Processing level, not dietary ideology Butter scores well. Refined seed oils don't. NOVA framework + peer-reviewed research Built by food safety experts The cocktail effect is real Finland · Sweden · Norway · Denmark
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Our position

Not a dietary
agenda. A
processing
agenda.

Ren doesn't tell you what to eat. It tells you what's actually in it. The enemy isn't fat, carbohydrates, or meat. The enemy is what happens between the field and your fork.

Refined sugar in any form. Industrial seed oils. Ultra-processed ingredients that didn't exist a hundred years ago. Additives that have never been tested in combination. That's what Ren flags — from first principles, not industry consensus.

Read the full Ren Food Philosophy →

Things we know
to be true.

Four principles that guide every score, every headline, every decision about what Ren flags and what it doesn't.

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Refining is the enemy

Every step of processing removes nutrition and adds risk. A whole food is always superior to its refined equivalent.

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Traditional foods are trustworthy

Butter, meat, eggs, fermented dairy. If humans have eaten it for thousands of years, the body knows how to handle it.

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Industry optimises for profit

Low fat, diet, fortified — marketing constructs. When fat is removed, sugar goes in. Ren reads the ingredients, not the label.

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The cocktail effect is real

Regulators test additives alone. No product contains just one. Ren flags the combined load — what the system won't tell you.

The Clean
Score

Every product gets a score from 0–100 based on sugar load, additive count, processing depth, fat quality, and pesticide risk. Not calories. Not your diet. What's actually in it.

75–100
Clean
Whole food, minimal processing, nothing unnecessary
40–74
Room for improvement
Some concerns worth knowing about
0–39
Worth a closer look
Significant processing, additives, or hidden sugars

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