The Sage Project is an initiative by designer and developer Sam Slover. The idea is to create food ingredient labels in the cloud, which can be accessed on the web or via a mobile app (the web version is now live and the mobile apps are coming soon, according to Slover). (You can listen to an interview with Slover here.)
Sage gets food information mainly from the manufacturers. Interestingly, Slover said companies were initially reluctant to provide the information but recently have been clamoring to do so. Separately, the food industry is reportedly discovering that unless food companies provide ingredient information, the public will seek it out from more reliable sources offering more transparency.
Sage lists food types (for example, "mandarin oranges") and food products (such as Theo Chocolate's Organic Fair Trade Orange (70%) Dark Chocolate Bar) in its nearly 20,000-item food database.
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Thanks Selvarani,
very interesting!
Savvas
But is there an equivalent UK based project yet? Looks very American!
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Roger
Hi Roger,
I haven't heard of anything UK based as yet but I'm sure it won't be long before it makes its way over the pond.
Kind regards
Selvarani
Hi Selvarani
But with Brexit etc, I do wonder about that. Note the carefully phrased words about support for science post 2020!
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Roger
Well at the moment, it's business as usual but time will tell. Interesting times ahead....
Kind regards
Selvarani