HowGood
Free App
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About HowGood
Want to know if your food is sustainable, wholesome, and honest? HowGood helps you find foods you can feel good about with simple ratings backed by extensive research. Search or scan product barcodes to quickly access the HowGood database of over 200,000 food product ratings.
Rating System
Each product in the database undergoes rigorous research by the HowGood team and is given a rating on its impact across three benchmarks: Growing Guidelines, Processing Practices, and Company Conduct.
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➜ Good meets 1 of 3 benchmarks
➜ Great meets 2 of 3 benchmarks
➜ Best meets 3 of 3 benchmarks
The HowGood ratings will show you which items are environmentally friendly, minimally processed, and ethically produced, helping you choose the products that meet your standards and align with your values.
About HowGood:
Founded in 2007, HowGood is an independent research organization that rates food products on their environmental and social impact. Developed over 10 years, the HowGood research framework uses insights from farmers, industry experts, NGOs, scientists, and academics and data from over 350 sources to assign its ratings. With a mission to bring transparency to the food industry and support sustainable food production, HowGood has partnered with grocery stores and brands to provide shoppers with ratings to help them make informed purchasing decisions. For more information visit:
Rating System
Each product in the database undergoes rigorous research by the HowGood team and is given a rating on its impact across three benchmarks: Growing Guidelines, Processing Practices, and Company Conduct.
➜ meets 0 of 3 benchmarks
➜ Good meets 1 of 3 benchmarks
➜ Great meets 2 of 3 benchmarks
➜ Best meets 3 of 3 benchmarks
The HowGood ratings will show you which items are environmentally friendly, minimally processed, and ethically produced, helping you choose the products that meet your standards and align with your values.
About HowGood:
Founded in 2007, HowGood is an independent research organization that rates food products on their environmental and social impact. Developed over 10 years, the HowGood research framework uses insights from farmers, industry experts, NGOs, scientists, and academics and data from over 350 sources to assign its ratings. With a mission to bring transparency to the food industry and support sustainable food production, HowGood has partnered with grocery stores and brands to provide shoppers with ratings to help them make informed purchasing decisions. For more information visit:
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App History & Updates
What's Changed
We've updated our look, and smoothed out some bugs. More updates coming soon. Stay tuned!
We've updated our look, and smoothed out some bugs. More updates coming soon. Stay tuned!
Version update HowGood was updated to version 3.0
Version update HowGood was updated to version 1.0
What are users saying about HowGood
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It's a 34MB app and it won't let me move it to the SD card. I have limited base storage, so if this app doesn't prove itself in a big way, I will have to remove it.
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breaking down Sustainable living information for quicker decision making made by people who care, what's not to love.
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Quick and Helpful Product Info
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Before getting access to the app they require a user log-in. They want the information on user's age and email account information for reasons [marketing]. I feel uncomfortable with that. I wish you didn't have to sign in.
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a larger product database. I want this app to work but no stores in my area are connected and most of the basic brand products i tried to scan or look up did not come up. Keep me posted if your list expands
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I'm on the Nexus 5X and when scanning the image is upside down. I heard the 5X sensor is inverted - you need to fix that it's really disorienting. Even still it almost never finds the product. A text search usually works but seems like you have to be very exact like when it comes spelling like possessives - should be a more forgiving. This needs a lot of improvement. Even just putting a prompt to type would be better than just a flashing cursor. I thought it was loading something when I first started it up.
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If you care about food this app is great.
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When I try scanning bar codes it rarely finds the product even if it is a major brand. It always pops up when I search for it though.
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I scanned a dozen national brand items. Pack of Tic Tacs was the only item it found.
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It's so hard to know what your buying, or the company your buying from now adays. How good helps me make better choices about the food I consume and the companies I support. Great work!!
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I love the idea is this app but the barcode scanner doesn't work - I tried it with several different products in different lighting areas. Nothing would scan and the app would frequently force close.
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Great idea but it needs a lot of work. The scanner rarely works and their list of products seems small. Hopefully they can work out the kinks and get a much larger database.