About Steading Home

Steading Home is a food-scoring companion that helps you understand what you are really eating. Point your camera at a barcode, a Nutrition Facts label, or a piece of fresh produce and you get an instant, honest score out of 100 — no marketing spin, no greenwashing. The score blends nutrition quality, additive risk, and provenance so you can compare a packaged granola bar against a bag of farm-stand apples on the same scale.

The app is built for everyday shoppers, home cooks, homesteaders, and anyone who wants to make better food choices without spending an hour reading ingredient lists in the aisle. Scan a product and you will see why it earned its score, where to buy it nearby, and a healthier or more sustainable alternative worth trying instead. For whole foods and farm purchases, you can attach a local grower to add bonuses for certified-organic, spray-free, and heritage-variety produce — and to surface that grower as a better option for other people nearby.

Steading Home is developed by a small, independent team that believes food should be traceable, fair, and easy to understand. Our scoring engine is a transparent, tuneable rules system rather than a black box, and our local grower catalog is built by the community of people who use the app. We are not paid by brands, we do not rank products based on advertising, and every score is generated the same way every time.