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Pillar guides on how Ingredo.app scores food and cosmetics, and how to read a label for your own conditions and diet.
2026-10-27 — Wine, dried fruit, shrimp: where sulphites are used, which E-numbers they are, the threshold above which a label must name them, and why a label without them does not mean zero.
2026-10-20 — Egg is not always written "egg". Lysozyme, ovalbumin, egg lecithin, E1105: what they mean, what the law requires, and which foods to watch.
2026-10-14 — In law, oats are a gluten cereal, yet they are the only one that may be sold as “gluten-free”. What that means, what avenin is, and how to read the pack.
2026-10-09 — The EU banned E171 from food in 2022 after EFSA’s opinion, but it is still allowed in medicines, toothpaste, cosmetics and food made outside the EU. How to spot it on a label.
2026-09-20 — The 14 EU allergens must be declared when they are ingredients. "May contain traces" is voluntary, has no legal threshold, and its absence proves nothing. How to read both.
2026-09-04 — Sweetener 950 is acesulfame K and 951 is aspartame: intense sweeteners used in milligrams that pass straight through. 420 (sorbitol) is a polyol that ferments in the gut.
2026-08-25 — The ribonucleotide flavour enhancers sit beside MSG on thousands of labels. Their safety is not the interesting question — their origin is, and the E-number deliberately does not tell you.
2026-08-25 — Fragrance gets the blame, but the two ingredients dermatologists name most often in wash products are a preservative and a foaming agent — and one of them is not really the allergen at all.
2026-08-18 — Lanolin is both a standard eczema emollient and a recognised contact allergen. The resolution is that it behaves differently on intact skin than on broken skin — which is what decides whether it suits you.
2026-07-28 — Most "E-numbers to avoid" lists are guesswork. Here is the short list that carries a real EU restriction, ban or mandatory warning — and why the rest of the alphabet soup doesn't.
2026-07-15 — They get lumped together, but one is a digestive issue with a sugar and the other an immune reaction to a protein — which changes which words on a label matter and how strict you must be.
2026-07-14 — An E-number isn't a red flag by itself. Here's what the code means, which additives carry a real EU warning or restriction, and which sound alarming but are benign.
2026-01-22 — "Parfum" on an ingredient list can hide dozens of individual allergens. Here's how the EU Annex III fragrance allergen list works, and how Ingredo.app flags it for a fragrance-allergy profile.
2026-01-15 — A behind-the-scenes look at the two-stage Ingredo.app score: a transparent, source-cited base score, then a personal verdict layered on top from your own condition and diet profile.