Could A Food Scanner Change How We Understand Diet and Health?

Tellspec is working on a handheld scanner that tells you what's in your food--and adds diet to the developing map of health data.

Isabelle Hoffmann, the CEO of a food scanning company called Tellspec, pours two delicate cups of organic keemun tea and sets a jar of raw honey in front of me on her kitchen counter. It reminds her of a conversation she had with a food analysis lab scientist. "He said that in 42 years of working there, there is not one time that he has tested pasteurized honey and not found acrylamide," she says in a deep Brazilian accent that makes her sound authoritative in the way some British accents always sound polite. "It is a side effect of the pasteurization."

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