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SafePantry reads ingredient data from Open Food Facts, a public crowdsourced food database, and analyses it against the allergen profile you set up for each kid. Verdicts are only as good as the data: most major-brand packaged products are tagged accurately, but newer or smaller-brand products can have incomplete tags.

Two safety rules built in:

• If we can't analyse a product (missing ingredient data), the verdict is Unknown — never "Safe." We prefer false-unknowns over false-safes.
• If the user has marked an allergen as Severe with "avoid traces" on, even a "may contain" warning escalates to Not safe red, not yellow caution.

SafePantry will hand you a label-capture flow. Paste the ingredient list, or photograph it with the camera, and the same allergen engine will analyse the text on your device.

If you opt in to sharing, your contribution goes to Open Food Facts so the next family scanning the same product gets an instant result. You can turn this off in Settings → Privacy.

Tap Report tag issues on the result screen. You'll see the current allergen tags as a 3-state picker (Not present / Trace / Declared). Adjust what's wrong, tap Submit. The correction goes to Open Food Facts and benefits every user.

Open Food Facts is community-edited. If another contributor updates a product's allergen tags, SafePantry will pick up the change next time you scan it (or up to 7 days after, when our cache expires).

Yes — for any product you've scanned before. We cache the data locally for 7 days, so repeat scans in airplane mode return instantly. First-time scans of new products require internet to look up Open Food Facts.

Family tab → tap the kid → scroll to the bottom → tap Share with caregiver. You'll see a QR code and a "Share via Messages, Mail, or AirDrop" button. The recipient needs SafePantry installed; when they scan the code or tap the link, they get a prompt to import the profile.

If you're signed in to iCloud on your iPhone, SafePantry automatically syncs kid profiles and scan history to your other Apple devices via your iCloud Private Database. Apple end-to-end encrypts this — SafePantry has no servers and no access. Turn it off any time in iOS Settings → your name → iCloud → SafePantry.

iOS Simulator doesn't have a real camera. On a real iPhone the camera scanner works automatically. Either way, you can always use the Manual entry button (top right of the Scan tab) to type a barcode directly.

Settings → Reset all data → confirm. This removes every kid profile, every scan history entry, every cached product. If iCloud sync is enabled, the deletion propagates to your other devices.

SafePantry works anywhere — but Open Food Facts coverage varies by country. France, Germany, and the UK have the best coverage; the US is improving. If a product isn't in the database, the label-capture flow always works.