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Would your ancestors eat this?
Scan the barcode or the ingredient list. Ancestor reads every additive and gives you one sourced verdict in seconds.
Coming soon to the App Store
Scan the barcode or the ingredient list. Ancestor reads every additive and gives you one sourced verdict in seconds.
Coming soon to the App Store
The promises are printed big on the front. What you are actually eating is on the back, in four-point type, under names chosen to slow you down.
“Made with real fruit”
Usually a splash of juice concentrate in a base of sugar and water.
“No added sugar”
Often sweetened with maltodextrin or fruit concentrate, which raise blood sugar all the same.
“Heart healthy”
Routinely stamped on refined grain and seed oil.
“All natural”
Carries no agreed meaning on a label. It is a word, not a standard.
Point your camera at the barcode, or the ingredient list when there is no code. Every additive gets named in plain language, weighed against the ancestral record, and turned into one number from 0 to 100.
Every verdict shows its sources. No vibes, no sponsored scores, nothing you have to take on faith.
Four ways it can land
Real food
Food your ancestors would recognize. Cream and salt. Honey. A potato.
Passable
Real food with a footnote, or a neolithic food processed the traditional way.
Famine food
Edible, refined, and novel at this dose. You would eat it on day three of a famine.
Food-shaped
Built to sit on a shelf and read as food. Mostly sugar, seed oil, and color.
Barcode or label
Scan the barcode for a fast match, or the ingredient list when there is no code.
Aisle or home
Settle it at the shelf, or work through what is already in your kitchen.
Sourced
Each verdict shows its receipts, so you can check the reasoning yourself.
Private
Every read happens on your phone. What you eat is nobody else’s data.
One number in seconds, for anything with an ingredient list, wherever you happen to be standing.
“Placeholder review. Swap this with a real quote from an early tester once you have one.”
No brand pays for a verdict.
Every call shows its sources. We answer to the people scanning, not the people selling.
Would your ancestors eat this?
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