LabelBaby Baby Food Scanner — Safer Choices for Growing Families.
LabelBaby is a baby food ingredient checker that helps parents make informed decisions about baby food, feeding products, and family wellness.
Confidence for Every Stage of Family Life, From One Baby Food Scanner
Product Transparency
Understand what's inside products before you buy.
Family Wellness Guidance
Support healthier feeding decisions.
Simplified Research
Get answers quickly and confidently.
Peace of Mind
Make informed choices for every stage of development.
Parents Deserve Clear Information They Can Trust
LabelBaby is an app to scan baby products, helping families check ingredients with confidence.
- Transparent product information
- Guidance designed for parents and caregivers
- Quick answers to everyday questions
- Confidence for all stages of growth
LabelBaby
LabelBaby is a baby food scanner that helps parents read baby and toddler food labels with confidence. The first two years of feeding involve constant judgement calls — when to introduce an allergen, whether added sugar is hiding behind a fruit concentrate, whether a pouch marketed for six months is actually appropriate for six months. LabelBaby scans the product and answers those questions against age-appropriate guidance instead of marketing claims.
The app flags the nine major allergens, highlights added sugars and sodium relative to age-based reference intakes, and explains unfamiliar ingredients in language that does not assume a nutrition background. Parents can save a profile for each child, including known allergies and current feeding stage, so the same toddler food scanner app grades the same product differently for a seven-month-old than for a toddler.
LabelBaby is built by MetricPoint alongside Foodsage, which focuses on food sensitivities and autoimmune-aware eating, and SafaScan, which verifies halal status. Families often use more than one, and employers can offer the full suite through the MetricPoint employee wellness program.
Baby Food Ingredients to Avoid
Most baby food on the shelf is fine. A short list of ingredients is worth checking for, either because they add nothing a baby needs or because the label hides how much is really there. The LabelBaby baby food scanner flags each of these when you scan a product.
Added sugars under other names
Cane syrup, fruit juice concentrate, brown rice syrup and evaporated cane juice are all added sugar. Under 24 months, there is no need for any of them.
Fruit-juice-first purees
When concentrate or juice is the first ingredient, you are mostly buying sweetened liquid rather than the vegetable on the front of the pouch.
Added salt and sodium
Babies need very little sodium. Anything above roughly 50 mg per serving in a first-food product is worth putting back.
Honey before 12 months
Honey carries a risk of infant botulism under one year, including when baked into snacks and cereals.
Choking-risk textures for the stage
Whole nuts, popcorn, hard raw chunks and round whole grapes are unsafe well past the age printed on many snack packs.
Undeclared allergen cross-contact
"May contain" warnings matter once an allergy is known. LabelBaby matches them against each child's saved profile.
Rice-only cereals as a daily staple
Rice absorbs more inorganic arsenic than other grains. Rotating oat, barley and multigrain lowers exposure without cutting iron.
LabelBaby works as an allergen scanner too: the baby food ingredient checker tests every scanned product against the nine major allergens and against the allergies saved in your child's profile.
Ingredients to avoid: 0–12 months
Honey, food dyes, high-mercury fish and more — reviewed, with the reason for each.
Browse the GuideIngredients to avoid: 12–24 months
What still matters for toddlers after their first birthday.
Browse the GuidePopular: honey, Red 40, high-mercury fish, whole peanuts
New to first-year feeding and product safety?
Start with our complete guide — feeding schedules, formula comparisons, and what to check in diapers, wipes, and gripe water.
Frequently asked questions
What does the LabelBaby baby food scanner check for?
- LabelBaby scans baby food, formula, and household product labels and flags additives, allergens, and ingredients parents commonly want to avoid.
Is LabelBaby suitable for newborn formula?
- Yes. LabelBaby covers infant formula ingredient lists and highlights age-appropriateness notes, but it does not replace guidance from your pediatrician.
Can I set allergies for my child?
- Yes. You can create a profile with known allergens and LabelBaby will alert you when a scanned product contains them.
How do I use this app to scan baby products?
- LabelBaby is a mobile app that is coming soon to iOS and Android. Pricing will be announced at launch; sign up on the LabelBaby page for launch updates.
Does LabelBaby work for toddler foods too?
- Yes. LabelBaby works as a toddler food scanner app as well, grading snacks and meals against the 12–24 month feeding stage saved in your child's profile.