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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.
2026-09-04 — Acesulfame K and sorbitol are both listed as sweeteners, but only one of them reaches your gut. The difference decides whether a “sugar-free” product is harmless or a bad afternoon.
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.