The Consos App – Android-Software.fr

This application is one of the tools of the “Consumer and Citizen” system. It was created with the aim of enabling all consumers to take their food back into their own hands and to help companies progress towards more sustainable and responsible consumption.

It will give you the opportunity to quickly identify the products that best meet your expectations in terms of quality, fairness, nutrition and even environmental and social impact.

Functioning

– Create your profile by indicating the level of importance given to 7 criteria when shopping: quality, nutrition, price, environment, origin, ethics, community opinion.
– You can also report the ingredients that you do not consume or that are contrary to your diet.
– By scanning an article, you obtain a percentage of compatibility with your reported personal expectations, as well as an in-depth decryption of the composition of the products.
– Products that contain prohibited ingredients are directly marked as incompatible.
– Alternatives are also proposed, in the event that products of the same family correspond better to your expectations, with a better percentage of compatibility for you.

The application has an exclusive database and calculation algorithm, where each product benefits from a personalized study of the information, to be as precise as possible about what we have on our plate.
For this, the entry team buys the products or uses the photos sent via the application to extract as much information as possible: list of ingredients, nutritional values, barcode, price, weight, recyclability of the product. packaging, labels… it’s all there.
This information is then supplemented by extensive research and analysis on companies, manufacturers, specifications for labels and mentions, the origin of the products, the quantity of each ingredient… i.e. the maximum amount of information for better understand our consumption and facilitate our food choices.

The application is co-designed collectively, with the aim of better understanding the products we buy and expressing our expectations to the companies that manufacture them. Each progress is decided collectively, by regularly organizing online votes, open questions, and also by organizing co-construction workshops for the biggest stages of progress such as the arrival of a new feature or to enrich the database. of data.

The application is therefore constantly evolving and improving, in contact with our expectations, the consumers. New functionalities are already in preparation to learn even more about the products and better understand everything that the purchase of a product in store has an impact on.

To come up : Information on the societal and environmental responsibilities of companies, information on controversial additives and ingredients, information on the recycling and recyclability of packaging…