About KidoChoice
Parents standing in a grocery aisle are asked to referee a scientific debate in about eight seconds. The apps that promise to help usually do it by scaring you: a red flag, a scary word, and no way to check the reasoning.
KidoChoice takes the opposite approach. We answer one practical question — how does this food fit my child's age? — and we show our work. That means a plain-language pediatric summary, a nutrition review tied to real pediatric guidance, an evidence classification for every ingredient, and optional safety details that separate what is established from what is still uncertain.
The Parent Beta focuses on packaged foods children eat and drink every day: baby food, infant formula, snacks, drinks, breakfast foods and dairy. Keeping the beta focused helps us learn whether the recommendation itself is useful before expanding into other product categories.
This is early, and we're showing it to parents and pediatricians to learn what's genuinely useful. KidoChoice only shows guidance when the exact product has enough verified label information to assess it reliably; the evidence library and catalogue are both still growing.
What we're looking for feedback on
- Do the four guidance levels feel actionable without feeling alarmist?
- Is the ingredient evidence useful, or too much information at the shelf?
- Are the optional safety details clear without creating unnecessary worry?
- Does choosing a specific child age make the recommendation feel more relevant?
What is stored during testing
Child profiles stay on this device. A saved profile can include a name or nickname, date of birth, selected food allergens, other considerations and optional allergy notes. KidoChoice does not upload the profile itself as an account record.
Recommendation telemetry is anonymous. When a recommendation is shown, KidoChoice may record the product, category, age band, age in months used by the engine, recommendation level and which rules fired so we can find catalog or rule problems. These records do not include the child's name or date of birth and are not attached to a parent account, session identifier or device identifier.
Missing searches can be recorded. If a product name or barcode is not found, that search term or barcode may be stored so we can prioritize products families want reviewed next. Use the search box for product names and brands rather than personal or medical information.
Parent feedback is structured. If you answer “Was this recommendation helpful?”, KidoChoice can store the product, helpful/not-helpful response, structured reason, broad age band, recommendation level and analysis mode. The form has no free-text field and does not send the child profile, name, birth date, email address, account identifier, session identifier or device identifier.
Technical errors are scrubbed before sending.A production error report may include a scrubbed error message and stack trace, page path and browser user-agent string. Query strings are stripped, and saved child-profile names and date-like values are redacted before the report is sent.
This beta data is used to improve product safety, reliability, catalog coverage and usefulness. It is not used for advertising. Because anonymous operational records are intentionally not tied to an account or device, KidoChoice may not be able to identify which anonymous database row came from a particular tester later.