Food Additives 2 Downloads & RevenueFood Additives 2 · App Store
Food Additives 2 is #28 in Food & Drink Paid in Japan and charting in 16 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
Full timeline · 5 events in the last 12 months
- 🚀Food Additives 2: now shown next to Food Additives - Australia, Additivithe store's “similar apps” for it changed: who it's seen as competing with
- 📈Food Additives 2 entered the top 10Top Paid · Food & Drink · FR
- 📈Food Additives 2 charting in a new countryChina
- 🆕Food Additives 2 first spotted by AppInsider#32 in Top Paid · Food & Drink · Japan
- 🆕Food Additives 2 released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Food Additives 2 on the App Store
App details
Food Additives 2 downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Where Food Additives 2's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Retention · share of new users still active
Time spent · per daily user
How this is calculated
Business model: Ad-led
How Food Additives 2 makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Food & DrinkPaid | #28 | |
| Food & DrinkPaid | #12 | |
| Food & DrinkPaid | #9 | |
| Food & DrinkPaid | #78 | |
| Food & DrinkPaid | #16 | |
| Food & DrinkPaid | #31 | |
| Food & DrinkPaid | #48 | |
| Food & DrinkPaid | #32 | |
| Food & DrinkPaid | #109 | |
| Food & DrinkPaid | #27 | |
| Food & DrinkPaid | #39 | |
| Food & DrinkPaid | #44 | |
| Food & DrinkPaid | #26 | |
| Food & DrinkPaid | #80 | |
| Food & DrinkPaid | #30 | |
| Food & DrinkPaid | #27 |
Apps near Food Additives 2 on the chart
Food & Drink Paid, around #28.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisReview momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about Food Additives 2
From the 39 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users appreciate the app's informative content and clean interface for identifying food additives, particularly for dietary restrictions like veganism or celiac disease. However, many complain about missing ingredients, lack of search functionality, and intrusive ads in a paid version.
Mixed but leaning positive (59% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for being useful, and its design. The main complaints are about ads, and not being useful.
What people like
- Useful: “A must have for people who eat stuff”
- Design: “It's user interface is just amazing”
- Ease of use: “an excellent and informative app done in a very pleasing and easy to use way”
- Features & content: “This is a great tool, I'm a chef and I have to work with special diets and”
Common complaints
- Ads: “needs a search bar + no ads”
- Useful: “It's not helpful if I have to cross reference every listing because of a lack of clarity within the app creating doubt”
About Food Additives 2
Food additives may have revolutionized the mass production of the food that we consume, but at what cost to your health? Fully searchable, this app lets you quickly & easily access the general information of 450+ food additives (no internet connection required!).
► Previous App Store Staff Favorite (USA)
► 4 Stars from MacLife
► iPhone, iPad, Mac (made for iPad) UNIVERSAL app support
Not all food additives are bad for your health, but a large percentage have been associated with a whole range of potential health risks & side effects, that include:
■ Allergies & skin reactions
■ Asthma & breathing difficulties
■ Baby & infant related risks
■ Digestive upsets
■ Eye damage & effects
■ Genetic DNA mutations
■ Gluten intolerance (Celiac disease)
■ Histamine inhibitors / freeing
■ Hyperactivity in children
■ Migraines & headaches
■ Tumors / carcinogens
■ Salicylate sensitivity (aspirin etc)
■ Vitamin deficiency and/or effects
- ADDITIVE DATA LISTED & SORTED BY:
■ Name
■ Number (International Numbering System)
■ Risk type (i.e. dangerous, unsafe, unknown or safe)
■ Symptom type (i.e. asthma, gluten, tumors, allergies, digestive etc)
■ Diet type (i.e. substance derived from animal, plant, insect, bacteria or fermentation, synthetic, mineral etc)
■ Fully instant search support
- ADDITIVE DETAILS SHOWN:
■ Additive number (e.g. E150b), additive name & other name they may go by
■ Substance origin (plant, synthetic, animal, mineral, fish, insect, bacteria, gas etc)
■ General use & function of the additive
■ Food industry classes & (coloring agent, preservative, emulsifier etc.)
■ Food products associated with the additive
■ Known & potential side effects relating to the additive
■ Maximum or adequate daily intake (ADI) of the additive
■ Dietary restrictions (helpful for vegetarian, vegan & religion based diets)
■ Countries unapproved for use as a food additive (currently Europe & Australian data)
- OTHER KEY FEATURES:
■ Full instant search functionality
■ Wikipedia integration for even more detail. Each additive conveniently embeds Wikipedia within the app (internet required for this functionality)
■ Color coded by risk (red=danger, orange=unsafe, unknown=blue, safe=green)
■ Icons for all symptom types (i.e. asthma, gluten, tumors, allergies, digestive etc)
■ Icons for all substance origin types (i.e. synthetic, mineral, fish animal based etc)
■ Flag icons for countries unapproved (Europe & Australia)
■ Fast, inbuilt database, so no internet required
■ Fancy layout, scrolling and 3D flip card between additive overview & details page
* PARTIAL multilingual language^ support inbuilt (labels, heading names etc. only. You can switch between English (native), French, German, Spanish, Italian (native), Dutch (native) & Japanese. Note: Languages that aren't native are software translated
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