How Scan and Swap rates food

Draft for legal review. This page is a structure for our lawyer to complete. Text in [square brackets] is still to be written. Last updated: [date].

What the rating means

[The scale, what each band means, and that it is guidance, not medical advice.]

What goes into it

[Nutrients, ingredients, additives and level of processing, and how each is weighted.]

The additive list

[The additives we flag and why. Current version: [version], [date].]

Allergy flags

Every result checks the product against the allergies in your profile and flags any match, whatever its rating.

Sponsors never change a rating

Partner and sponsor data is kept out of the rating. A sponsored product gets exactly the rating it would get without the sponsorship, and sponsored suggestions are always labelled.

Changes to the method

[How changes are reviewed, and a dated list of versions.]