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"You are amazing, this has saved me so much time when grocery shopping!"
— Austin, a user who reached out with feedback
"It's been a great tool since starting my journey! You take a pic of the nutrition/ingredients, and it'll warn you of anything questionable or not vegan. 😁"
— Ashe, a Vegan For Beginners Facebook Group member
"Use a vegan app when you go shopping, I use WhatsVegan."
— Dóra, a Vegan For Beginners Facebook Group member
So, what is les eau?
"Les eau" is a French phrase, most likely a typographical or scanning error for "l'eau" or "les eaux," which translates to "water" in English. On food packaging, this text is not a distinct ingredient but rather an OCR fragment or translation mistake representing standard water. Water is an inorganic compound obtained from natural sources such as springs, wells, and municipal reservoirs, and it is typically purified through filtration, deionization, or reverse osmosis before use.
Water is one of the most common components in packaged products, appearing across beverages, canned goods, sauces, and baked items as a solvent, carrier, or hydrating base. Because "les eau" refers entirely to water, which is an inorganic mineral substance that contains no animal tissues or byproducts and requires no animal inputs during processing, it is classified as vegan.
We've built a vegan ingredients scanner that classifies food ingredients as "vegan", "non-vegan", or "potentially vegan".
It allows you to avoid non-vegan ingredients - just take a picture of a product's ingredient list, and the app tells you if the product is vegan or not.
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