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Barilla Penne
Good match for your profile
⚠️Contains gluten
✓No seed oils detected
✓Low sugar — 2g per serving
Ingredients
● Durum Wheat Semolina, Water. Contains wheat and gluten.
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Nime
Product Analysis
74
Barilla Penne
Good match for your profile
⚠️Contains gluten
✓No seed oils detected
✓Low sugar — 2g per serving
Ingredients
● Durum Wheat Semolina, Water. Contains wheat and gluten.
SCANNER
HISTORY
DISCOVER
PROFILE
Health Priorities
Customize what matters to you
Allergen Alerts
Flag gluten, dairy, nuts & more
Diet Type
Vegetarian, Keto, Halal & others
Intolerance vs Allergy
We adjust severity for you
Additive Scanning
Chemicals & seed oils flagged
Nutrition Tracking
Macros & nutrition at a glance
Features
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Nime puts the power of a nutritionist in your pocket, available every time you pick up a product.
Instant Label Scanning
Point your camera at any nutrition label or barcode and get a full ingredient breakdown in under two seconds.
Allergen Alerts
Set your personal allergen profile once. Nime flags every product that contains your triggers — automatically.
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Every product gets a science-backed score based on ingredient quality, additives, and nutritional balance.
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1
Scan
Open Nime and point your camera at a food label, barcode, or even a restaurant menu. Our vision model reads it instantly.
2
Analyse
Our AI cross-references thousands of ingredient and nutrition databases to build a complete, personalised profile of the product.
3
Decide
Get a clear health score, allergen summary, and plain-English ingredient breakdown — so you can make the right choice, fast.
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