Useful Applications: Check the Quality of Food or Cosmetic Products and Don’t Forget About Medications

There are more and more 'smart' applications that facilitate everyday life in one way or another. The key to such applications is the databases that allow them to be smarter than others. Today, with the help of such applications, it is possible to check which food is nutritious, what ingredients it contains, and similar. Additionally, there are numerous applications that can tell you a lot about the environment you are in. For example, today you can check the air quality in a specific city, and you can also take a photo of an unknown plant, and the application will reveal what plant it is. There are also useful applications for checking cosmetic products that are extremely popular, judging by data from app stores, and we should not forget those that remind you to take your medications.

One such application is the domestic app Take Care, which helps ensure that the therapy prescribed by a doctor is taken on time. It also provides the option to manually enter various measurements such as blood pressure, sugar levels, weight, and so on, so that you can track the movements of these values and recognize problems in time. Additionally, this list of entered data could be useful to your doctor if you are diligent in recording and measuring. After the user opens an account, i.e., a profile, it is necessary to enter the medications they use as part of their therapy. Medications can be entered by scanning the barcode if they are Pliva’s medications, while others must be entered manually.

Today, many people also care about air quality, although realistically, we cannot influence it independently. However, if you want to check the air quality in your city or another city, there is the popular application Air Visual. With this application, it is possible to find out the air quality in more than ten thousand cities in over 80 countries worldwide. In addition, the application offers a display of historical forecasting data as well as future air quality trends. The application also provides recommendations, for example, for those suffering from asthma or similar respiratory problems to reduce exposure to pollution. Data is collected from numerous devices, and anyone who has one can join this system and thus help all those for whom poor air quality causes a whole range of problems.

For those who love and buy cosmetic products, there is the application INCI Beauty with a database of 400,000 cosmetic products. This is an independent French application, where this 'independent' aspect is particularly emphasized because it does not allow cosmetic brands and the industry to influence the ratings proposed by the application. The application contains a database of 400,000 products and 15,000 documented cosmetic ingredients and closely collaborates with the Chemistry School Clermont-Ferrand Sigma. The application allows for the analysis of the composition of cosmetic products, information about individual product ingredients, and dialogue and exchange of opinions about products and ingredients. Using the application is quite simple and allows you to scan the barcode of a product to immediately receive results about the product itself and its composition. When you scan or find a product that interests you, all its ingredients will be displayed divided into 4 groups that can be labeled as good, satisfactory, not so good, and risky.

Perhaps the most important of all is Open Food Facts application, maintained by 15,000 volunteers, which serves as a database for food products, their ingredients, allergens, and more. The people behind this application believe that food data must be of public interest and must be accessible to anyone who is interested, and the application itself contains more than a million products that can be checked.