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FoodEssentials.com can help you find foods for your specific dietary needs!!
Anyone who cares about what is in the food that they eat can use FoodEssentials` various tools to help search and compare foods to find the products that best suit their specific dietary needs. Gone are the days where one has to spend hours in the store comparing food labels, or where we just have to compromise on what we eat because we don’t have the time to check every single label for every single ingredient.
With FoodEssentials.com you can now easily find foods that match YOUR specific dietary preferences. If you want to avoid gluten, reduce exposure to preservatives, buy foods free of aspartame, consumer less fat and sodium – FoodEssentials.com can help you to achieve this.
Ingredients, Allergens, Additives & Nutrients:
FoodEssentials has the most comprehensive food comparison criteria available. No matter what you’re specific requirements are FoodEssentials.com has the potential to be able to help you find foods that suit those requirements. One can compare foods by specific ingredient, allergens, additives or nutrients making the FoodEssentials database the most comprehensive in existence.
Search or Browse for foods:
To find the foods you’re looking for you can simply search for them on FoodEssentials.com. Try searching for ¨preservative free chips¨, ¨color free cereal¨, or ¨high fiber wheat bread¨. The search is designed to consider the food type and ingredient/nutrient variable that you are interested in and will return relevant results as lists of products that can be selected and compared. Once you’re looking at a list of foods you can also compare them by any other ingredient, allergen or additive variables by selecting the relevant choice from the ¨compare by¨ drop down.
If you’re not exactly sure what you’re looking for there is also a Browse option available on the right hand side of the site that can help you to navigate through the virtual store to explore the different food categories.
Food Labels and Lists:
Once you’ve compared your products it is possible to get a detailed breakdown by clicking on the product and viewing the name. The FoodEssentials Food Label includes the regular food label as published but also includes a listing of every single ingredient identified to contain allergen or additive properties. This can be a powerful tool to help you to make your final decision.
Once a decision has been made it is also possible to add a product or several products to a list to print or email. Try making shopping lists of products that suit your requirements to take to the store on your next visit.
Coming Soon:
We at FoodEssentials are dedicated to evolving our tools to best serve your needs. We have a lot of development projects in the works including multiple columns for comparisons, ability to build dietary profiles, as well as some social tools. But we would love to hear from you what you would like to see developed. On every page of FoodEssentials.com there is a Feedback tab on the bottom right corner, otherwise please feel free to drop us a note at info@foodessentials.com. We look forward to hearing from you.