Scan it.
Chop the slop.
Choose better.
Barcode, box or ingredient list — throw it at us. We’ll show you what looks fine, what deserves a closer look, what the internet may be overhyping, and what you could swap instead.
Put a label
on trial.
Use whichever route is easiest. Barcode data comes from Open Food Facts; photo reading happens in your browser. If the database is incomplete, the ingredient-photo or paste route is usually more reliable.
Barcode
Point your camera at a UPC/EAN barcode, or type the number manually. The camera opens in this panel — the page should not move again.
Ingredients camera
Get close, keep the label straight and avoid glare. We’ll read the printed text and analyse what we can see.
Paste the ingredient list
Best for online shopping, screenshots, or labels the camera can’t read cleanly.
Verdict
✓ Useful positives
◌ Worth knowing
! Stronger flags
A score with
receipts.
Product A
vs Product B.
When two packets are staring you down in the aisle, compare their ingredient lists. Lower Slop Score wins this quick check. It’s intentionally a label comparison, not a claim about your whole diet.
The stuff everyone
argues about.
Chop the Slop can have fun with the hype without pretending every viral claim is settled science. These are context flags: things worth understanding, not automatic proof that a food is dangerous.
Seed oils
Frequently attacked online. Their presence alone does not establish that a food is harmful. We flag them as context and look harder at the whole product.
Sweeteners
They can reduce added sugar, while each sweetener has its own evidence and trade-offs. We identify which one is there rather than lumping them together.
Emulsifiers & gums
A broad category used for texture and stability. Some are being actively researched; the presence of an emulsifier is not itself a diagnosis or safety verdict.
Maltodextrin
A rapidly digestible refined carbohydrate used for texture and bulking. Its position in the ingredient list and the rest of the food matter.
Colours & preservatives
A long chemical name is not automatically a dangerous one. We identify specific additives and explain the reason for any flag.
Ultra-processed food
Degree of processing can be useful context, but nutrition, ingredients, portion size, frequency and the overall dietary pattern all matter too.
Hype outside.
Receipts inside.
The Slop Score is an explainable label heuristic — not a medical-risk score. It deliberately gives more weight to stronger nutrition signals and less weight to ingredients that are mainly controversial online.
🔴 Stronger signal
Examples include very high salt, high sugar or saturated fat in the available nutrition data, and partially hydrogenated oils. These carry more weight in the score.
🟠 Context flag
Added sugars, refined carbohydrates and some additives may be worth understanding, particularly in foods eaten frequently. They are not automatically a declaration that the product is unsafe.
🟣 Debated online
Seed oils, sweeteners, emulsifiers and other viral topics can be surfaced for transparency without being treated as proven dangers simply because they are controversial.