VitaScore provides insider secrets about nutritional supplements so consumers know what is truly safe and effective. By seamlessly educating and informing consumers, we define questionable ingredients and give every product a thumbs up or thumbs down helping our Users to make a better buying decision. Since our founding we have scored more than 200,000 products. VitaScore is the first App ever to score nutritional supplements based on the presence or absence of questionable ingredients.
We all know there are chemical compounds in food and food supplements that we often can’t pronounce and wonder whether they’re safe.VitaScore goes beyond a simple review of a supplement label.User’scan either scan a product’s barcode or search for it to receive a simple thumbs up or thumbs down.
The User can also delve into the Questionable Ingredient definitions and discover what those chemical terms actually mean. We point out for example the difference between synthetic vs. natural Vitamin C,Vitamin D and Vitamin E. We also expose that many nutritional supplement manufacturers use common beach sand as a filler and free flow agent, Magnesium Stearate (which is partially hydrogenated vegetable oil) as a filler, Propylene Glycol (the chemical in antifreeze) as a tableting agent and Polyvinylpyrrolidone (used for years as the main ingredient in hairspray) as a disintegrant.