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CNCK Nutritionist Contributes Health and Wellness Tips in Z Living Article
Content Checked Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB: CNCK) continued to make progress toward increasing awareness of its innovative suite of mobile apps last week when it was named in an article published on Z Living, a leading network for health and wellness programming. In the article, titled “Foods That Sneak Sugar Into Your Weight-Loss Meal Plan,” author Menaka Warrier examines the effects of cutting out sugar when attempting to shed a few pounds. Victoria Brodsky, head of nutrition for Content Checked, contributed helpful advice regarding the true benefits of sugar-free and low-fat foods.
In the article, Brodsky warns that “sugar-free foods lure us with the prospect of eating sweets and maintaining that waistline, but over-indulging in them can be counterproductive… Their unnatural makeup of delivering sugar without the calories promotes metabolic dysfunction which causes you to store fat and leads to an increase in appetite.” Along with this advice, the article features a link to a selection of posts on the Content Checked website which provides additional information about limiting sugar intake and promoting a healthier lifestyle.
To view the full article, visit http://dtn.fm/UG3gk
Z Living is dedicated to showcasing the best of healthy lifestyle and wellness entertainment across multiple mediums – including television, the internet and on-demand streaming networks. The network’s website attracts an audience of more than 36,000 unique month visitors with a regularly updated selection of articles focusing on beauty, fitness, food and healthy lifestyle inspiration.
In recent weeks, Content Checked has leveraged the marketability of its suite of nutrition-based mobile apps – including ContentChecked, MigraineChecked and SugarChecked – to secure coverage in an assortment of popular blogs and news sites. Through these efforts, in addition to a planned rebranding of its products to be unveiled in the coming weeks, the company aims to increase its market share while continuing to improve the lives of individuals with specific dietary preferences or food-related allergies.
For more information, visit www.contentchecked.com
CNCK's SugarChecked App Featured in Article on #LatinaGeeks
Content Checked Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB: CNCK), the company behind the innovative ContentChecked, MigraineChecked and SugarChecked mobile applications, has made tremendous strides toward increasing its brand awareness in recent months by contributing helpful tidbits for living a healthier life in articles on some of the web’s top nutrition- and technology-focused news sites. Earlier this week, the company built on this progress when SugarChecked, an app that identifies four main types of sugars in products with a quick and easy barcode scan, was featured in an in-depth review article by social media and technology news site #LatinaGeeks.
In the review, Tanya M. Salcido, a #LatinaGeeks contributor, takes a closer look at the benefits of using the SugarChecked app, which she refers to as “having your own team of specialists in the palm of your hands.” After quickly discussing some of the biggest advantages of using Content Checked’s convenient shopping assistant – including the option to set personalized dietary suggestions, receive multiple healthy alternatives to sugary products and search through a database of nutritional recipes – Salcido added an impressive list of standout features offered in SugarChecked, including the fact that it is now free to download in both Google Play and the App Store.
To view the full article, visit http://dtn.fm/jTK83
Founded in 2013, #LatinaGeeks is an influential site within the Hispanic community. Its target audience is made up primarily of early adopters, social media enthusiasts, entrepreneurs, influencers, branding experts, marketing pros, Web 2.0 aficionados and technology addicts. The site has a strong social media presence – including thousands of likes and followers on Facebook and Twitter.
By continuing to secure coverage in popular media outlets, Content Checked is progressing toward its goal of uplisting to the NASDAQ or NYSE in the coming months. In a letter to shareholders, Kris Finstad, chairman and chief executive officer of Content Checked, highlighted uplisting to a major exchange as a primary goal for the company in 2016. As part of this effort, Content Checked plans to unveil a relaunch and rebrand of its products in March, introducing a new, subscription-based revenue model designed to meet the evolving preferences of its growing user base.
For more information, visit www.contentchecked.com
CNCK Empowers Consumers
After a triumphant initial launch of its ContentChecked app, Content Checked Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB: CNCK) is looking ahead. The company has set its sights on a wider release of its ContentChecked app and its other apps (SugarChecked and MigraineChecked) in order to further its impact.
What problem is Content Checked interested in solving? The company is developing smartphone applications for use by U.S. residents suffering from food allergies and intolerances, as well as migraine and chronic headaches. In the years since its establishment in 2013, the California-based company has conceived and introduced the ContentChecked, MigraineChecked and SugarChecked smartphone apps to the public and, as a result, created an innovative marketplace for people with dietary restrictions and the institutions who cater to them.
Content Checked continues to leverage and promote the effectiveness of its current apps, including its most recent addition, SugarChecked. How exactly does SugarChecked work? SugarChecked is an easy shopping tool for consumers who are interested in decoding often-misleading food labels and receiving recommendations for healthier alternative products in real time as they shop.
The app, which is available in the iPhone App Store and Google Play Store, allows consumers to use their smartphones to scan the barcode on a food item. It then highlights the sugar content of that item and the forms sugar will take if it is consumed. The app specifically identifies the four main types of sugars that consumers can avoid, including added sugars, artificial sweeteners, natural low-calorie sweeteners and sugar alcohols, and all of this comprehensive sugar content information is fact checked by a team of nutritionists. Then, if the item is unsuitable for the user, based on his or her dietary preferences, the app suggests a host of alternatives from an extensive food database.
SugarChecked empowers consumers. It gives them the ability to scan the barcodes of grocery store products and determine what kind of sugars they contained. It also educates them on their options and why they may want to avoid certain food items. In doing this, the app is geared toward meeting the needs of millions of people in the United States who suffer from dietary restrictions, wish to maintain a low sugar diet and want to avoid unwelcome, hidden ingredients.
In addition to serving consumers, SugarChecked also serves food producers. It has given food producers a vital way to showcase their products to consumers who are actively seeking those types of products, and it does so at the point of purchase.
For more information, visit www.contentchecked.com
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CNCK: Healthy Living Should Start with Our Children
Building good habits is the key for living a longer and healthier life. Developing these behaviors during adolescence can be an added benefit, as habits will develop and grow into a healthier adulthood. As individuals, our behavior is simply a stream of habits, which can be good or bad for our physical, mental, and emotional health. Eating a balanced diet, exercising regularly, and constantly learning and growing mentally are the foundation for a healthy lifestyle, and should be practiced regularly and early on in life.
If you’re not sure where to begin when it comes to building better dietary habits, begin with grocery shopping. Shopping for ingredients for an entire week’s meals can be a daunting task, even for the seasoned soccer mom with years of PTA experience. One company’s mission is to make this process easier while educating consumers throughout the process – Content Checked Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB: CNCK). CNCK’s suite of mobile apps (ContentChecked, SugarChecked, and MigraineChecked) allows shoppers to set their dietary restrictions, and scan the barcodes of food items to quickly and easily find out if that product is suitable for their dietary needs. If the product is not suitable for the user, then the apps will offer similar alternatives that do meet their dietary needs. Recipes that are catered to each user’s specific dietary restrictions are also available in the apps.
In a recent article on the Jakarta Post website (http://dtn.fm/c4vK8), journalist Stuti Agrawal emphasized the importance of a healthy lifestyle for teenagers: “Firstly, in the early stages of adolescence, the body requires a lot of calories. In general, teenage boys need to consume 2,800 calories each day and teenage girls need to consume 2,200 calories per day. An excessive intake of calories can result in serious health problems such as obesity, type 2 diabetes and heart disease. Obesity is most common among teens today because of the wrong choices they make in their diet. Today, junk food such as pizza, burgers, fries and soda, which have little nutritional value and contain excessive fat, sugar, salt and calories, are the major portion of teenagers’ diets.”
A healthy exercise routine is essential for maintaining proper body weight. If you stay active by doing simple everyday tasks, such as walking your dog, taking your kids to the park, making smart decisions at the grocery store, and cooking balanced meals, you will be much more likely to attain and maintain a healthy body without having to spend two or three hours at the gym every single day.
Lastly, exercising and advancing your mind is an imperative component in maintaining and improving your overall quality of life. Effectuate a healthy lifestyle – it’s never too early or too late to start!
For more information, visit www.contentchecked.com
A Check on CNCK shows a Company with Momentum
Content Checked Holdings, Inc (OTCQB: CNCK) is a young company in a hurry. Founded in July 2013 by Kris Finstad, the company, according to SEC filings, had no revenues for the 6-month period ending September 30, 2014. One year later, for the comparable 6-month period to September 30, 2015, revenues of $657,850 flowed into the company’s coffers. Finstad and his team at Content Checked have not been sitting on their hands. Those hands have been busy creating and developing a family of mobile apps for those with special dietary needs or who suffer from food allergies.
The company’s first app, ContentChecked, is a smartphone application designed for use by those who suffer from food allergies and intolerances. The app allows its user to scan a product’s bar code and determine if it is safe for consumption. Other features include an expansive menu and recipe database with directions and ideas on food preparation for avoiding allergic reactions. ContentChecked also features a database of allergens and food ingredients that indicate any relationship between the two. Currently, that database has information on more than 400,000 products in the United States, and it’s constantly being expanded. ContentChecked doesn’t only help shoppers. The platform provides a way for food manufacturers and distributors to better inform their markets, where it matters most, at point-of-sale.
Subsequently, the company put out two more apps: MigraineChecked and SugarChecked. MigraineChecked is good news for the 38 million Americans who suffer from migraine and chronic headaches. With SugarChecked, you can scan the barcodes of grocery store products and determine the kind of sugars contained within. SugarChecked identifies four main types of sugars that consumers can avoid, including added sugars, artificial sweeteners, natural low-calorie sweeteners and sugar alcohols. The app is an easy shopping tool for consumers trying to decipher often-misleading food labels and receive recommendations for healthier alternative products in real time as they shop. It’s been estimated (http://dtn.fm/fX0tW) that, in the U.S., there are about 15 million people who suffer from food allergies. It’s a potentially fatal malaise, particularly in children (1 in 13 of whom is affected). According to a study released in 2013 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), food allergies among children increased approximately 50 percent between 1997 and 2011. The economic cost of children’s food allergies is nearly $25 billion per year.
Together ContentChecked, MigraineChecked and SugarChecked have had over 2 million downloads, and 66 percent of users are active at least five times a week. These apps were initially meant for those who suffer from allergies and other dietary restrictions, but they’re catching on as the nation grows more health conscious. Last year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, in a study entitled Changes in Eating Patterns and Diet Quality among Working-Age Adults, 2005-2010 reported that ‘American adults are eating better, making better use of available nutrition information… consuming fewer calories coming from fat and saturated fat, consuming less cholesterol and eating more fiber…’
The ContentChecked suite of apps has been talked about in Forbes, USA Today and the Los Angeles Business Journal. It’s been seen on ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox. Word is certainly getting around. CEO Kris Finstad is confident about the future: “We believe that the iOS (Apple) and Android platforms are moving in the direction of subscription-based applications. To capitalize on this trend and stay ahead of our competition, we are making our core apps free, and are also offering users subscription-based versions of our apps that will provide access to additional desired features. With the re-launch and re-brand of Content Checked’s products, anticipated to take place in March 2016, we will introduce a new subscription based service for the Content Checked line of products, in addition to offering an updated and improved experience for core (free) users.” We look forward to that.
For more information, visit www.contentchecked.com
CNCK Combats Food Allergies and Other Dietary Restrictions with Innovative Apps
It all began when ContentChecked (OTCQB: CNCK) CEO Kris Finstad had trouble buying the correct food for both his daughter and her friend with food allergies. While so many people suffer from food allergies, something new had to be done to ensure that the right foods got into the grocery cart. As a result, Finstad created the ContentChecked app, which was first released in Norway in 2012, and then in the United States in 2014. This app allows people to scan barcodes on food items and beverages at the grocery store, which then gives them a status of whether or not the item contains any of their allergens in question. Behind the app is a team of nutritional experts analyzing nutritional labels and contacting food manufacturers to track the allergen cross contact status of grocery store products available in the U.S. So far, over 70% of all conventional food items are in the ContentChecked database, ready to be scanned by users. The number of products in the database is constantly growing, and products are constantly being updated for formula changes and allergy recalls.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, food allergies among children increased 50% between 1997 and 2011. Since over 15 million Americans suffer from food allergies, awareness of ingredients is vital when preventing reactions, which range from mild to severe. The most common allergens include milk, eggs, peanuts, soy, wheat, fish, shellfish and tree nuts.
In addition to the app itself, ContentChecked provides printable Allergy Cards in multiple languages for allergy sufferers to give to their servers at restaurants. Each card lists an allergen, and an explanation of the importance of keeping all kitchen items clean and clear from the allergen(s) of concern.
In addition to the ContentChecked app for food allergies and intolerances, the company has released two other dietary restriction apps: SugarChecked for those avoiding added sugars and sweeteners, and MigraineChecked for those avoiding migraine triggers in food. SugarChecked helps users trying to lose weight, get fit, or manage diabetes by alerting them of added sugars or dangerous artificial sweeteners in their food. MigraineChecked, showcases otherwise unknown ingredients that may trigger migraines and headaches. Not only do these apps alert and educate the user about unwanted ingredients in food items, but they also offer healthy alternatives.
ContentChecked will continue its mission of offering “fast, reliable, and efficient mobile apps” to ensure consumers make more informed decisions when buying food. As ContentChecked continues to diversify and grow, the company plans to expand to include more niche apps within the health and wellness sector, with a focus on weight loss and development/degenerative conditions.
For more information, visit www.contentchecked.com
CNCK Nutritionist Offers Tips for Cutting Back on Sugar in Bustle Article
In a recent article on Bustle, a pop culture site with more than 8 million unique monthly visitors, Content Checked Holdings, Inc.’s (OTCQB: CNCK) innovative app, SugarChecked, was mentioned as an effective tool for individuals attempting to cut back on sugar without sacrificing on taste. In the article, Tory Tedrow, RD, Certified Nutrition Support Clinician for SugarChecked, gave tips on decreasing sugar content in recipes without having a noticeable impact on the flavor of the final dish.
To view the full article, titled “7 Tips to Cut Back on Sugar,” visit http://www.bustle.com/articles/136602-7-tips-to-cut-back-on-sugar-because-it-can-be-hard-to-give-up.
The Bustle article marks the second time this week that Content Checked has gained exposure for its suite of innovative mobile apps by contributing dietary tips to websites with expansive, global audiences. On Monday, the company’s head of nutrition, Victoria Brodsky, offered some insight into the healthiest ways to enjoy a popular cinematic snack.
For more information, visit www.contentchecked.com
CNCK Reports Impressive Revenue Growth and Outlines Future Plans in Recent CEO Letter
Talk is cheap, and action – or results to be more accurate – defines whether a company is going in the right direction. There are many innovative ‘idea companies’ out there, but one company making good on its promises and delivering revenue growth, new partnerships, and new products is Content Checked Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB: CNCK). In a recent letter to its shareholders, Content Checked CEO Kris Finstad recapped a rapid, exciting growth history while outlining plans for moving forward.
Fundamentals are the baseline measurement for any small-cap startup company to gauge whether or not it is going in the right direction. For the six months ended September 30, 2015, Content Checked’s revenues were $657,850, as compared to no revenues for the six months ended September 30, 2014. Cash and equivalents as of September 30, 2015, were $5.5 million. Those figures answer these two questions with an unequivocal yes: 1) Are people actually buying your product?; and 2) Do you have enough money in the bank to execute business operations and strategies moving forward? A positive nod in this regard represents impressive execution and growth for a company founded in July 2013.
Content Checked is the creator of a family of mobile apps for individuals who suffer from food allergies and other dietary needs. As Finstad notes in his shareholder letter, the company has had over 2 million downloads and, more importantly, 66 percent of its users are active at least five times a week.
Leveraging its success, the company is moving to a subscription-based model and has plans to continue to diversify and grow its offerings to include more niche apps within the health and wellness sector.
“We believe that the iOS (Apple) and Android platforms are moving in the direction of subscription-based applications. To capitalize on this trend and stay ahead of our competition, we are making our core apps free, and are also offering users subscription-based versions of our apps that will provide access to additional desired features. With the relaunch and rebrand of Content Checked’s products, anticipated to take place in March 2016, we will introduce a new subscription based service for the Content Checked line of products, in addition to offering an updated and improved experience for core (free) users … The extension of our brand will add value to our family of mobile apps designed for those with dietary restrictions and preferences. We believe that consumers of all ages are continuing to place greater emphasis on healthier food alternatives, and we hope that our family of apps will enable Content Checked to reach every demographic in a household,” explained Finstad.
Another strong point for this emerging player is its ability to establish key industry relationships. In this respect, Content Checked has formed a partnership with Troy Healthcare in which the two companies will use their innovative products, MigraineChecked and Stopain® Migraine, respectively, to help deliver preventative information and fast-acting relief for migraine sufferers.
Content Checked’s products have been given numerous accolades and praise in several high profile media outlets and publications, including Forbes, USA Today, ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, Los Angeles Business Journal, Yahoo! Travel and Yahoo! Finance, Examiner.com, MSN, PR Newswire, Gourmet Business, Epi-Family.com, The Active Times, Reviewed.com, Business Rockstars, IdeaMensch, Celiac Disease Foundation, Cheapflights.com, Bustle, AllergicLiving, The App Magazine, Great Taste Magazine, Clean Eating, TheDailyMeal.com, DIY Active, Food Allergy & Research Education, SheKnows Media, Smarter Travel and Voices in America and Z Living. The company’s apps will also be featured in upcoming outlets such as Los Angeles Business Journal, Reuters, VentureBeat, MyHeart.net, and Rasmussen Blog.
A look at some of the other spokes in the corporate wheel provides a bit of insight into the company’s business development and proven ability to advance on its growth strategies.
Aside from key management, Content Checked is backed by a team of professionals with the following certifications and/or degrees: registered dietician, certified nutritionist specialist, certified nutrition support clinician, CISSN sports nutrition, masters of nutrition, wellness and health coach and NESDA personal trainer.
Additionally, the company kicked-off 2016 with the formation of a board of advisors to provide guidance to the board of directors and management team. One such advisor is Dr. Marc Siegel, MD FACP, a clinical professor, medical director, author, and medical contributor, reporter, and member of the Fox News Medical A Team, among other notable roles.
Combined, all of these achievements and strategies contribute to Content Checked’s plan to uplist to the NASDAQ or NYSE exchange later this year, an impressive feat that will position the company in front of a broader base of global institutions, funds and retail investors.
“All of us at Content Checked believe that our market capitalization will continue to grow with improving underlying Company fundamentals. We are a young entrepreneurial company that is flexible and continues to adopt to our core markets’ and users’ demands, to ensure that we position the Company to enhance shareholder value going forward,” Finstad concluded in his letter.
For more information, visit www.contentchecked.com
CNCK Lead Nutritionist Provides Commentary for Z Living Article
Everybody loves popcorn, especially as a quick snack before dinner or during a night at the movies. What many people don’t know, however, is that pre-packaged popcorn from the grocery store may contain loads of salt, butter and other artificial flavoring that are terrible for your health. As an alternative to munching these additives, in a recent article published on ZLiving.com, Victoria Brodsky, head of nutrition at Content Checked Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB: CNCK), gives some great tips and recipes for making your own popcorn at home.
Read the full article here: http://www.zliving.com.
As the article notes, popcorn is healthiest when prepared ‘air popped,’ which you can purchase or whip up on your own.
“You can buy air-popped popcorn at your local grocer, or you can make your own by buying kernels and popping them in a paper bag in the microwave,” Brodsky explains in the article.
Another option is to put a third of a cup of popcorn kernels into a medium-sized paper bag, fold the bag with a small half-inch fold, and then stick it in the microwave for two or three minutes. Once the kernels are done popping, add some healthy fat such as olive oil or coconut oil. As an alternative to artificial flavor or sugar, use spices and fresh herbs to elevate the taste and add nutritional boosts to your popcorn.
The article – available to Z Living’s 26,244 unique monthly visitors – has recipes for whatever your taste buds are craving; whether it’s something sweet, salty, or spicy, popcorn can satisfy your cravings and keep your health in mind at the same time.
Though you certainly can use the ContentChecked app to shop for grocery store popcorn, you can also use the app for other foods to know exactly what you’re getting in terms of food allergens and specifics. Brodsky is just one of several professional nutritionists who have helped establish ContentChecked and its family of apps as a reliable source for consumer information and media commentary.
For more information, visit www.contentchecked.com
CNCK Updates Investors through Release of CEO’s Letter to Shareholders
Earlier today, Content Checked Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB: CNCK) announced the release of a letter from the company’s chief executive office, Kris Finstad, regarding the current status of the company and other important developments. The letter detailed a number of milestones – including Content Checked’s recent revenue growth, formation of a board of advisors and new partnership with Troy Healthcare – as well as the company’s plans for 2016 and beyond. In particular, Finstad noted the company’s intent to apply for uplisting to a major exchange, such as the NASDAQ or NYSE, later this year.
“We believe that uplisting to a major exchange is the next logical step in attracting a broader base of worldwide institutions, funds and retail investors to participate in our future,” noted Finstad. “[A]s we proceed in 2016, we intend to undertake appropriate corporate, corporate governance and other actions necessary to meet the qualifications for uplisting to the NASDAQ Capital Market or the NYSE.”
Additional topics covered in Finstad’s letter to shareholders include:
- Revenue Growth – since being founded in July 2013, Content Checked has leveraged the marketability of its family of apps to promote strong financial growth; for the six months ended September 30, 2015, the company’s revenues were $657,850, as compared to no revenues for the same period of the previous year
- Formation of Board of Advisors – earlier this year, the company formed a board of advisors to provide guidance to its board of directors and management team; Content Checked recently appointed Dr. Marc Siegel, a clinical professor of medicine and the medical director of Doctor Radio on Sirius XM (NASDAQ: SIRI), to its board of advisors
- Growing Content Checked Team – the company’s nutrition team has continued to expand and diversify; Content Checked currently employees four full-time employees and 10 contractors, strengthening its knowledge and expertise in the food ingredients, health and nutrition space
- Growth Capital Financing – in September 2015, Content Checked completed a $4.5 million debt financing with Hillair Capital Investments L.P., an award-winning U.S. fund
- New Partnership – in October 2015, the company announced a partnership with Troy Healthcare through which the two businesses will use their innovative products to help deliver preventative information and fast-acting relief to migraine sufferers
- Change to Subscription-based Revenue Model – in an effort to stay ahead of its competition, Content Checked plans to relaunch and rebrand its products in March 2016, implementing a new subscription-based service model and offering an updated and improved experience for core users
Finstad wrapped up the letter by outlining his optimism regarding the company’s prospects for the months to come.
“All of us at Content Checked believe that our market capitalization will continue to grow with improving underlying company fundamentals,” he stated. “We are a young entrepreneurial company that is flexible and continues to adapt to our core markets’ and users’ demands, to ensure that we position the company to enhance shareholder value going forward.”
For more information, visit www.contentchecked.com
CNCK Gains Valuable Exposure from SheKnows.com Article
Traveling is a fun and enjoyable experience, especially when you are able to take your kids along to make lasting memories and interact with different cultures. However, a scary reality for parents with children who have food allergies is the possibility of rushing their little one to the emergency room due to an allergic reaction. Thankfully, in today’s Internet age of smartphone technology, information and health and safety tips are readily available in the palm of your hand.
In a recent article featured on the popular SheKnows.com website, Tara Zamani, a Nutritionist at Content Checked Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB: CNCK), provides valuable insight about the company’s suite of innovative mobile apps, and how they can help anyone avoid these potential catastrophes through awareness of food allergies in packaged food and beverages.
To view the entire article, visit http://www.sheknows.com/parenting/articles/1103389/travel-tips-for-kids-with-food-allergies.
The fun and excitement of traveling does not always have to be deterred by the fear of a food allergy reaction. The SheKnows article provides insightful tips on how to plan ahead and use common sense when dealing with allergens in various travel situations. It also suggests carrying medications with you at all times, contacting the airline ahead of time about the medications you will be traveling with, FaceTiming or Skyping with your host prior to arrival, and researching restaurants – all essential tips to make a potentially dangerous traveling experience that much more enjoyable. In addition to these tips, simply utilizing the ContentChecked app allows you to educate yourself and the people around you about potential allergens in food and beverage items you may come across.
Zamani’s contribution to SheKnows.com not only brings to light an important and relatable circumstance for people with food allergies, but also positions ContentChecked in front of an influential and wide demographic of women of all ages. SheKnows.com reaches 4,737,750 unique monthly visitors and provides daily content for women seeking advice, information, and exclusive content on entertainment, parenting, health and wellness, money, careers, dating, beauty and style.
For more information, please visit the company’s website at www.contentchecked.com
CNCK CEO Kris Finstad Interviews on Business Rockstars
In a recent interview on ‘Business Rockstars’ with Ken Rutkowski, Content Checked Holdings, Inc.’s (OTCQB: CNCK) CEO Kris Finstad talks in depth about the company’s origins, its mission, where it is today and plans for the company’s future. A few years ago when Kris was cooking dinner for his daughter and one of her friends, the friend ended up in the emergency room due to an allergic reaction to one of the ingredients in the meal he prepared. Why did this happen? Simply because food labels often give very limited and confusing information, especially pertaining to food allergens. The ContentChecked app originated from this all too frequent and relatable instance. The app allows its users to scan a product’s bar code and determine if it is safe for consumption, as well as helps users to personalize shopping lists and make sure they purchase products that are compatible with their specific allergies and intolerances.
Kris first launched the app in Norway, accumulated 17,000 users, and gained invaluable experience with a reliable test market before making the decision to tackle the competitive U.S. market. ContentChecked is in the Food Knowledge sector and has very little competition. The company makes money through the advertisement of foods and beverages that are listed as alternatives for those products consumers scan that do not match their allergy settings.
The company has a family of mobile apps, which includes the SugarChecked app ($0.99 in the app store); the MigraineChecked app (free in the app store); and its namesake ContentChecked app (free or the premium version costs $1.99 in the app store). Each app is supported by the largest and most comprehensive food database and is updated constantly by a team of nutritionists, medical professionals and user feedback.
Kris is the principal shareholder of the company, having invested $6 million of his own money, along with raising an additional $2 million from the IPO. ContentChecked has all the pieces in place to grow and succeed, including a dedicated and knowledgeable team with a laudable purpose; high demand with very little supply and competition in its sector; a proven test market; and skin in the game.
For more information, please visit the company’s website at www.contentchecked.com
CNCK Makes Holiday Grocery Shopping Easier and Healthier with SugarChecked App
Everyone loves the holidays, especially the food and drinks that come with them. Christmas ham and holiday eggnog are two favorites, but the eggnog, usually from a family recipe passed down for generations, is saturated with sugar. No one is suggesting cutting out the eggnog, but how about enjoying the best of both worlds and using low-fat milk and stevia instead of whole milk and sugar? This is just one quick and easy healthy adjustment to a holiday favorite that Content Checked Holdings, Inc.’s (OTCQB: CNCK) SugarChecked app can help you with.
There is really no substitute for being healthy and extending your lifespan. In today’s world of smartphone apps like SugarChecked, coming up with excuses just doesn’t sound as appealing as it used to. SugarChecked identifies four main types of sugars that consumers can avoid – including added sugars, artificial sweeteners, natural low-calorie sweeteners and sugar alcohols. This application is an easy shopping tool that helps consumers decipher often-misleading food labels and receive recommendations for healthier alternative products in real time as they shop.
Understanding the effects to your health of adding alcohol to your holiday drinks is a big reason to use the SugarChecked app as well. In a recent article titled ‘Sip it or Skip it: Healthiest and Unhealthiest Holiday Drinks’ featured on The Daily Meal and MSN Lifestyle, Content Checked Registered Dietitian Tory Tedrow stated: “Some champagne varieties contain the least amount of added sugar. A four ounce flute contains about 100 calories.”
Content Checked is spearheading an effort to educate the technology hungry, health conscience consumer with its suite of mobile apps. Progress, not perfection should be the mantra of everyone attempting to convert to a healthier way of living. The more we do it, the easier it gets, and, after a while, it becomes second nature. However, faith without work is dead; just reading and talking about it isn’t nearly enough. Getting consumers to buy healthy alternatives and substitute them into current recipes are the actions the company is striving for with its family of apps.
For more information, please visit the company’s website at www.contentchecked.com.
CNCK: User Specific Grocery Shopping with Your Smartphone
Healthy grocery shopping can be hard enough when it’s just for you. Now imagine the headaches that accompany shopping for your entire family, while avoiding potentially dangerous foods due to your family members’ allergies and dietary requirements. Luckily, a cutting-edge company, Content Checked Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB: CNCK), has done all the research for you and created a suite of easy-to-use apps readily available to download on your smartphone or tablet.
ContentChecked is an app that will help users make better food choices for their food allergy and intolerance needs. When in the grocery store, users can scan a product barcode on a food or beverage product. The app will then tell the user whether or not that product is suitable for them based on their allergy settings and will provide the user with similar alternatives if the product does contain one or more of their allergens. Educating consumers about food ingredients and helping them avoid trips to the emergency room are two of the company’s goals when developing apps.
The company began with a simple idea: to ease the frustration of a father trying to grocery shop for his daughter and her friends while taking into consideration their countless food allergies and intolerances. Transforming the trudging task of picking out groceries into a fun, interactive and educational scavenger hunt is the ultimate goal of Content Checked Holdings.
In today’s health conscience world where consumers test diet after diet, it is refreshing to find a company like Content Checked whose mission is to educate the consumers on products readily available in most local grocery stores throughout the U.S. Once we inculcate ourselves on what foods are bad for our diet and which alternatives we should put in the shopping cart instead, our lives will become much healthier and food will become more fulfilling.
For more information, please visit the company’s website at www.ContentChecked.com.
CNCK Nutritionist Provides Potentially Life-Saving Insight for Yahoo! Travel Article
The peanut: a rather inconspicuous snack for the majority of people. However, peanut allergies are among the top eight food allergies in the U.S., accounting for 90% of the food allergies from which 21 million Americans suffer. However, peanut allergies tend to be the most severe and are likely to cause a serious, or even potentially fatal, allergic reaction. For individuals with food allergies, the best strategy for their safety is to completely avoid the culprit, although that’s not always an easy prescription to fill.
Yahoo! Travel recently published a heart-rending article about two children and their accidental interaction with peanuts – one of them fatal. The title of the article, “Big Debate: Is it OK to Bring Peanuts on a Plane?”, demonstrates the danger of bringing food allergens that are known to cause fatal reactions in a public setting, and how we can take others’ risks into consideration, especially when traveling.
Read the full article here: https://www.yahoo.com/travel/big-debate-is-it-ok-1291594081484854.html
Among many medical professionals and experts to chime in on the article is Tara Zamani, a Nutritionist for Content Checked Holdings Inc. (OTC: CNCK), the developer of a family of apps specifically designed for people with specific dietary requirements. While the majority of airlines no longer serve peanuts, there are currently no laws prohibiting passengers to bring nuts on board.
Zamani suggests a few easy precautions peanut-munching passengers can take to alleviate the risk of accidentally contaminating a traveler with a peanut allergy.
“Keep peanut butter in a closed container. If you want to use it as a spread, prepare your sandwich prior to coming on to the plane, wrap it in foil, and put it in a Ziploc. It’s best to ask your neighbors if they have allergies. If so, change seats if you plan on consuming what they’re allergic to,” she says.
Zamani’s comments, in addition to those of Content Checked’s other Nutritional professionals, are becoming increasingly recognizable in food and health-related articles. The company has continued to gain traction as not only the developer of an impressive suite of apps, but also as a reliable and respected source for food and food-related information.
Consumers set their food allergies or intolerances on the Content Checked apps, and simply scan the barcodes of whichever items they are considering purchasing. The app then tells the user whether or not the product in question is suitable based on their dietary restrictions. If the product is not suitable, the app suggests alternatives, similar products free from their allergens. This connection between consumers/users, food products and food manufacturers at the point-of-purchase is the basis of Content Checked’s business model – a highly engaged platform that educates consumers in need of recommendations for products that fit their dietary restriction profile.
Zamani’s commentary on in-flight allergens potentially exposes the Content Checked brand and expertise to Yahoo! Travel’s roughly 57.2 million unique monthly visitors. Additionally, Content Checked is hyperlinked in the article, making it easy for readers to click through for more information about the apps or Content Checked itself.
“This feature is great as it continues to elevate Content Checked’s status while getting it in front of a huge consumer audience,” Content Checked CEO Kris Finstad tells MissionIR, part of the DreamTeamNetwork (DTN). “We are continuing our outreach efforts and also constantly scanning for additional features.”
For more information visit www.contentchecked.com
CNCK: Featured in DIY Active Article “Healthy Kitchen Tips: 4 Easy Steps”
Transitioning to a healthy lifestyle is essential for developing a better quality of life and extending your lifespan. With so many cheap, quick and easy, fast food chains on every corner of America, sometimes that seems like a monumental task, but, in today’s world of smartphone technology and ‘app-hungry’ consumers, Content Checked Holdings, Inc. (OTC: CNCK) is aiding the health conscience shopper with its easy-to-use ContentChecked and SugarChecked apps.
The company’s apps were recently featured in the DIY Active article “Healthy Kitchen Tips: 4 Easy Steps” by clinical nutritionist Tara Zamani where she outlines a guide to healthy living using readily available tips, products, and technology. Zamani emphasizes the importance of getting into the habit of cooking and making it a priority in your life. Once you do this for a while, it becomes fun and is unlike any other activity because of the joys associated with feeling healthier from your own making and, of course, helping your family do the same.
Before jumping into the kitchen, you need the proper ingredients for a healthy concoction. Here is where she illustrates the significance of savvy shopping via ContentChecked’s family of innovative mobile apps. With the SugarChecked app, once you scan a food item, an alert is issued based on personal dietary sugar/sweetener preferences, and then the app provides you with a list of satisfactory alternatives. The ContentChecked app works very similarly, except that it alerts the user based on personal allergy settings and then offers a list of acceptable replacements.
The company’s goal is to continue building an environment that will foster healthier and happier lives through personally targeted information. The key to a healthier way of life is in the palm of your hand thanks to Content Checked Holdings. All you need to do is download the apps and start shopping.
For more information, visit the company’s website at www.ContentChecked.com.
CNCK Offers You the Holidays Guilt-Free
The holiday season is supposed to be a joyous time of year, but can be surprisingly difficult for people with special dietary needs. A long season of planned celebrations and get-togethers can mean a constant barrage of food choices and decisions, a potential health nightmare for those who are diet-restricted. The search for holiday recipes that are both delicious and safe can make every trip to the store a challenge.
ContentChecked Holdings, Inc. (OTC: CNCK), is a California based company that is tapping today’s advanced mobile technology in the service of a huge and growing market, specifically for individuals that have dietary requirements and preferences. It has done this by offering a growing family of mobile apps that allow the user to specify their unique dietary restrictions, and then quickly and easily monitor their consumer purchases by simply scanning the product’s barcode with the app to find out if the product suits their dietary needs.
- ContentChecked, the company’s initial app, helps users make better choices for their food allergy and intolerance needs by instantly telling them whether or not the product they scan is suitable based on their allergy settings. In addition, the app provides the user with positive alternatives.
- SugarChecked is an app that, upon scanning a product, gives the user an alert based on their personal dietary sugar/sweetener preferences. If the product is deemed undesirable for the user, it suggests suitable and related alternatives.
- MigraineChecked is an app for migraine sufferers who want to avoid eating foods that may trigger a migraine. By scanning the product’s barcode with the app, the user finds out if the product contains an ingredient, additive, or chemical compound that has shown to trigger migraines, highlighting the compound in the ingredient list.
- VeganChecked, a fourth app, is slated for release at the end of this year.
Obviously, every individual has their own particular needs and preferences, which makes the flexibility of these mobile apps especially important, but one of the company’s nutritionists, Tara Zamani, recently took the time to put together some general holiday recipe suggestions designed to leave you healthier, happier, and less bloated. See http://dtn.fm/L8it1 for some ways to enjoy all of the holidays without hurting your body in the process.
For additional information, visit www.ContentChecked.com.
CNCK Helps Prevent Painful Migraines with Innovative App
Sufferers of chronic headaches and/or migraines know the difficulties of a grocery store trip. Certain ingredients, chemicals, and additives can trigger these painful attacks, making the task of food shopping tedious. Fortunately, ContentChecked Holdings, Inc. (OTC: CNCK) has developed an app that lets users know if the foods they’re putting into their carts contain risky ingredients. After scanning an item’s barcode, the MigraineChecked app will let the user know if any ingredients are migraine triggers. This app offers users a simple approach to preventing migraine headaches while making healthy choices.
According to the Migraine Research Foundation, over 10% of the world’s population suffers from migraines. More than 90% of these people cannot function properly during an attack, which results in school or work absences. In the United States alone, 36 million people suffer from the syndrome with 14 million people experiencing painful episodes each day. These numbers are hard to ignore, making the MigraineChecked app a valuable tool for prevention.
The whole premise of MigraineChecked is to alert the user of foods containing migraine-causing ingredients. Some of these ingredients are hard to identify; that’s when the app steps in. Processed foods with monosodium glutamate (MSG), artificial sweeteners, nitrates, nitrites, and flavor enhancers are known to cause the syndrome. Even chocolate, alcohol, caffeine, peanuts, and cheeses containing tyramine are common triggers. The app will immediately alert the user if any of these pesky potential elements are present in a food item.
ContentChecked aims to arm consumers with nutritional data that can help them make informed grocery choices for their specific dietary needs while promoting a healthy lifestyle. The app and website also offer delicious recipes with customizable dietary restrictions to suit everyone’s tastes. These recipes include appetizers, desserts, beverages, and entrees. The company will continue developing more apps, such as VeganChecked, in order to reach a wider audience.
For more information, visit the company’s website at www.contentchecked.com
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CNCK Secures Coverage in Thanksgiving Article on Popular Entertainment and Lifestyle Site
Across the United States, friends and family indulged themselves last week with an estimated 46 million turkeys, according to the National Turkey Federation, but these flightless birds are just the beginning. In total, Americans consume roughly 4,500 calories on Thanksgiving, according to the Calorie Control Council, including 3,000 for the big meal and another 1,500 for snacking and nibbling. In a recent article on Examiner.com, heart health expert Lois Trader and Tara Zamani, a clinical nutritionist with ContentChecked Holdings, Inc., outlined a few quick tips for a healthier Thanksgiving.
While the article focused on tips such as avoiding canned and packaged foods and adding natural spices, Zamani contributed three tasty recipes that are perfect choices for a healthier holiday. Each of Zamani’s dishes are customizable in order to address possible dietary restrictions and food allergies. By providing these alternative ingredients, Zamani effectively highlighted the utility of ContentChecked’s innovative family of mobile apps. By using the ContentChecked app when shopping for Thanksgiving, individuals are able to easily avoid foods that may disagree with the specific dietary requirements and preferences of friends and family.
For ContentChecked, the Examiner.com article represents a great opportunity to expand its user base in the coming weeks. The article included multiple links back to the company’s website, and these links are expected to play a key role in driving traffic back to the ContentChecked site. Examiner.com currently enjoys more than 4.3 million unique visitors each month.
Complementary to its efforts to raise awareness of its family of health apps, ContentChecked regularly contributes its collective expertise where needed in order to help Americans better manage their food allergies, migraines and overall health. In recent weeks, the company has been featured in articles by a collection of highly trafficked sites – including The Active Times, ValuePenguin and Examiner.com.
To view the entire article, visit http://www.examiner.com/article/quick-tips-for-a-healthier-thanksgiving
CNCK Gains Wide Exposure in ValuePenguin Publication
ContentChecked Holding today issued a press release announcing that one of its degreed nutritionists, Tara Zamani, provided valuable insight in a recent ValuePenguin article on employment as a dietician/nutritionist.
“Los Angeles is full of food gurus, raw foodies, vegans, vegetarians and nutrition-savvy individuals. I love working in L.A. as a nutritionist because many of my clients already have a good understanding of nutrition and are very open-minded when it comes to holistic health. L.A. is a hub for holistic nutrition, alternative medicine and many people here prefer to use natural remedies for healing, rather than traditional methods,” Zamani stated in the article. “Nutritionists are in demand, which makes it a great city for a new nutritionist to start a career. L.A. also offers many healthy restaurants, farmers’ markets, co-ops, health food stores and wellness centers, and guiding clients to choose healthier eating places is easy.”
ValuePenguin currently has an audience of approximately 350,000 monthly viewers, and the article published (http://www.valuepenguin.com/getting-job-as-dietitian) links back to ContentChecked’s website where readers can learn more about the company’s offerings.
Contributing nutritional expertise is an important part of ContentChecked’s efforts to raise awareness of its family of health apps and help Americans better manage their food allergies, migraines and overall health.
“Each ContentChecked employee is highly valued for their strong contributions and hard work that firmly roots our company in the marketplace,” says Kris Finstad, CEO of ContentChecked, the developer of MigraineChecked, SugarChecked and ContentChecked, a family of health apps for people with dietary restrictions and/or food preferences. “It’s always a pleasure to see the expertise of one of our team members being sought after and published in a well-recognized and read publication like ValuePenguin.”
For more information on the company, visit www.contentchecked.com
Nutritionist with Content Checked Holdings, Inc. (CNCK) Offers Tips to Avoid Halloween Candy Overload
According to the National Retail Federation, more than 157 million Americans will celebrate Halloween this year, and roughly 80 percent of millennials are already cooking up something fun for the spookiest holiday of the year. The celebrations won’t come cheap. In 2015, total spending on Halloween festivities is expected to top $6.9 billion, with the average American dishing out just under $75 on a mix of decorations, candy, costumes and more. To put it simply, that’s a whole lot of candy.
While it’s safe to say that leading candy and cookie producers – including Hershey (NYSE: HSY), Mondelez International (NASDAQ: MDLZ) and Tootsie Roll (NYSE: TR) – are more than happy to provide the goods for the estimated 41.2 million children between the ages of five and 14 expected to partake in the trick-or-treating fun, The Active Times recently weighed in on one part of All Hallows’ Eve that’s even scarier than a good zombie costume: unhealthy candy-eating habits.
“It’s important to keep candy consumption in moderation and to remember that there are always healthier alternatives to your favorite candies,” Tara Zamani, M.S., C.N.S., a clinical nutritionist with Content Checked Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB: CNCK), stated in the Active Times article. “Keep in mind that too much sugar consumption is directly linked to weight gain, ADD, anxiety, depression, fatigue, and poor digestion and immune system function.”
Now, before concerned parents start bolting up their doors and cancelling trick-or-treating plans, it’s important to note that the article doesn’t suggest kicking the sweet stuff completely. “There’s nothing wrong with treating yourself to a bite-sized Milky Way or sneaking a few Skittles every once in a while,” the article details. Instead, The Active Times suggests that you save over-sweetened candies for truly special occasions while aiming for healthier alternatives the majority of the time.
So, how do you find healthy alternatives to your favorite sweet treats? Zamani suggests scanning ingredients lists for a collection of ‘nutritionist approved’ ingredients – including natural sweeteners like agave nectar, brown rice syrup, honey, coconut palm sugar-syrup, tapioca syrup, stevia, reb A and monk fruit. Alternatively, shoppers can use Content Checked’s innovative suite of mobile apps to check products for potential nutritional conflicts or allergens. With a quick scan of a product’s barcode, the company’s apps help consumers identify potentially harmful ingredients and, if necessary, suggest a healthier alternative.
To view the entire article by The Active Times, visit www.theactivetimes.com/fitness/nutrition/worst-halloween-candies-and-alternatives-are-healthier
For more information, visit www.contentchecked.com
CNCK Gaining Notoriety, Mentioned in SmartTravel.com Article
ContentChecked Holdings, a developer of a family of apps for individuals with specific dietary requirements and preferences, is backed by strong executive leadership, as well as a team of knowledgeable and qualified nutritionists. Carving its niche in the broader health and wellness industries, ContentChecked is growing its reputation as a go-to source of information and helpful apps for individuals seeking to avoid sugars, foods known to trigger migraines and other specificities.
The company was recently featured in an article on www.SmartTravel.com, where one of its nutritionists was a contributing source to an article discussing the dangers of a particular food allergy and modern travel. The article also linked back to ContentChecked’s website, providing the company with considerable exposure to a large audience of consumers and potential shareholders.
The article is as follows:
When airline employees or passengers ignore protocol around peanuts, the results can turn tragic. Here’s what you need to know about bringing peanuts and peanut butter on the plane.
Last year, four-year-old Fae Platten was flying home to England from a family vacation in Spain. Before boarding, her parents told Ryanair‘s crew about their daughter’s severe peanut allergy. Flight attendants made three announcements asking passengers not to eat peanuts. Despite that, a man four rows behind Fae decided to eat the snack he’d brought onboard: a bag of mixed nuts, including peanuts. Fae’s face swelled and her lips blistered. Her mother raced her to the front of the cabin, away from the peanut dust. Nevertheless, Fae went into anaphylactic shock, stopped breathing, and went unconscious. Luckily, a paramedic was on board to inject her with an EpiPen. When the plane landed, an ambulance took her to a hospital, where she recovered.
This and other horror stories, like that of 13-year-old Natalie Giorgi, whose last words while dying of a peanut-induced allergic reaction were, “I’m sorry, mom,” should make those of us who take public transportation consider whether it’s acceptable to bring peanuts along for the ride.
When allergic people are exposed to peanuts, “an immunologic explosion occurs,” says Samuel Friedlander, an allergist at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio. “People can have closing of the throat, coughing, trouble breathing, hives, and swelling. In the worst case, low blood pressure and death can occur with anaphylaxis.”
It’s rare for peanut-allergic people to react severely from air on a plane—it’s more common for the smell to make them uncomfortable—but as evidenced by little Fae’s case, it does happen. “On planes the air is recirculated,” explains Allie Bahn, a food-allergy advocate, “and peanut dust can spread easily.”
According to an NIH study, at least 1 in 100 Americans is allergic to peanuts (which are actually not nuts but legumes). And according to the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, peanuts represent children’s most common food allergy (milk comes in second, shellfish third).
“In children, the incidence continues to rise,” notes Devang Doshi, who heads the allergy and immunology department at Michigan’s Beaumont Children’s Hospital.
“Your life changes in every way when you or a loved one is diagnosed with a food allergy,” says Jennifer Kurko, whose two daughters’ food allergies inspired her to start Kiss Freely, an allergy-friendly line of beauty products. “Simple tasks become fraught with danger. We’ve made many accommodations for the safety of others, including no smoking during flights and the banning of all sorts of objects. Banning peanuts helps to keep a small but rapidly growing population safe.”
“Most people would never intentionally expose another person to an allergen that could harm them,” says Diane Gottsman, an etiquette expert whose child has severe allergies. “It’s a courtesy to be cognizant of others in dire situations, which definitely includes allergies to specific foods, pets, and smoke.”
Anne Klaeysen, who leads the New York Society for Ethical Culture, adds, “Given that peanut allergy is the most common cause of food-related death, following the practice of ‘When in doubt, do no harm’ in these situations would be ethical.”
Not everyone agrees that peanuts should be banned: Paul Ehrlich, a pediatric allergist at NYU Langone Medical Center, thinks it’s all right to bring peanuts onboard if you’re careful about it. “I’m not going to say that having peanuts on a plane is never a threat,” he says. “However, if the person with peanuts doesn’t touch the allergic person or spread peanut butter on the allergic person’s seat or immediate environment, then it’s okay.”
Billie Frank, who owns the trip-planning company Santa Fe Traveler, was on a US Airways flight when, during takeoff, the crew announced that, due to a passenger’s allergy, no one could eat any kind of nut. “They were going to serve peanuts but reverted to pretzels,” Frank recalls. “I’m allergic to wheat and had brought almonds to snack on. I was unable to eat on the flight. I thought it unfair that a whole plane was held hostage to one person’s allergy. I’m sensitive to perfume and allergic to cats and some dogs, yet I have to ride in the cabin with them.”
As of now, there are no laws against bringing peanut products onto public or private property, though some schools ban peanuts and many establish “peanut-free zones.”
Most airlines’ peanut policies seem phrased to protect them from getting sued (like United was in 2013 when its employees failed to make the announcement they had promised to a woman with a severe peanut allergy). Most policies go something like this, from American Airlines: “We cannot guarantee customers will not be exposed to peanuts during flight, and we strongly encourage customers to take all necessary medical precautions to prepare for the possibility of exposure.”
Southwest, one of the few U.S. airlines still serving peanuts, has this on its site: “We will make every attempt not to serve packaged peanuts on the aircraft when customers alert us of their allergy. We suggest that customers with peanut dust allergies book travel on early morning flights as our aircraft undergo a thorough cleaning only at the end of the day.”
Some carriers, like JetBlue, accommodate allergic passengers by creating “nut buffer zones” around the affected person.
Within the allergic community, Delta is known as being the most accommodating airline. “We choose Delta because other people with food allergies recommend them,” Kurko says. “They flag your reservation and make an announcement onboard that there’s a traveler with a nut allergy and that they won’t be serving nuts. They also request that other passengers refrain from eating nuts. It isn’t foolproof—the flight attendants can be inconsistent in making the announcement—so we carry enough epinephrine to get us to our destination should the need arise.”
Delta also allows people with allergies to pre-board in order to wipe down their seating area. “Unfortunately, we still can’t guarantee that the flight will be completely peanut-free,” says Michael Thomas, a Delta spokesperson. “Flight attendants are of course trained on how to deal with in-flight medical situations.”
If you’re planning to bring peanut products on a flight, you should know a few things. First: The TSA will confiscate any jar of peanut butter containing more than 3.4 ounces, since it’s considered a gel. If you need to travel with peanut butter, put it in your checked suitcase or stow a tiny pouch of it in your carry-on.
Second, if you’re eating any food that could threaten others, clean up anything you spill. “That way, a child with an allergy won’t accidentally touch or ingest the allergy food,” Friedlander says.
Tara Zamani, a nutritionist for ContentChecked, an app for people with food sensitivities, adds, “Keep peanut butter in a closed container. If you want to use it as a spread, prepare your sandwich prior to coming on to the plane, wrap it in foil, and put it in a Ziploc. It’s best to ask your neighbors if they have allergies. If so, change seats if you plan on consuming what they’re allergic to.”
To be an even more considerate co-traveler, heed Doshi’s advice: “With the continued growing incidence of food allergies, the safest thing to do is avoid carrying foods which may place other passengers’ health and safety at risk.” From his medical perspective, it’s dangerous for airlines to be as lax as they are about having peanuts on their aircrafts. “Emergency medications may not be readily available. This would place someone experiencing an allergic reaction at high risk for morbidity and or mortality.”
If you or your child has a peanut allergy, know what you can do to keep safe and comfortable during a flight. Bahn says, “I always makes sure to have the following with me: disinfecting wipes for wiping down the seat and tray table as soon as I board, plenty of epinephrine, an antihistamine like Benadryl, and my own safe snacks.”
Kurko adds, “We do not allow our girls to use the pillows or blankets, as they are usually not cleaned between flights.”
Doshi tells his patients that their epinephrine pens and other remedies should display a prescription label bearing the passenger’s name to sidestep any trouble with the TSA. He also recommends packing a doctor’s note listing all allergies and medications.
Other sound advice includes checking the flight menu before booking and calling to notify the airline about your allergy as soon as you’ve made your reservation. Tell the gate agent about it as soon as you reach your gate. And tell the flight attendants about it as soon as you board. Ask them to make announcements, and to keep nut-containing snacks and meals far from you. Once you’re settled on the plane, politely tell those seated near you about your allergy.
“If someone pulls out a bag of nuts,” Gottsman says, “let that passenger know that you or your child is severely allergic and ask if they would mind holding off until you talk to the flight attendant about arranging a seat change.”
Lianne Mandelbaum encourages people to push the airlines to change their inconsistent policies regarding food allergies. Her site, No Nut Traveler, offers links for signing a petition, filing a complaint, and contacting lawmakers. Mandelbaum became an activist after a United manager at Denver’s airport refused to make an announcement about her child’s peanut allergy. The employee told her, in front of her eight-year-old son, “If you think he’s going to die, don’t get on the plane.”
They didn’t get on the plane.
For more information on ContentChecked Holdings, visit www.contentchecked.com
Nutritionist with Content Checked Holdings, Inc. (CNCK) Shares Healthy Tips for Halloween Sweets in The Active Times
Another Halloween is rapidly approaching, and for kids around the country that can only mean one thing: candy! Sugary treats are a staple of everyone’s favorite October holiday, but trick or treating can be a nightmare for parents of children with dietary restrictions. According to Food Allergy Research & Education, food allergies affect approximately one in 13 children in the United States, representing an increase of more than 50 percent since 1997. Meanwhile, ingredients commonly found in Halloween candies – including milk, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts and wheat – account for nearly 90 percent of all reactions, making trick or treating a serious health concern for many parents across the nation.
While these allergies are a major concern for parents, the truth is that an overactive sweet tooth can have negative health implications for everyone. Tara Zamani, M.S., C.N.S., a clinical nutritionist with Content Checked Holdings, Inc., outlined these concerns in a recent article by The Active Times – a leading source of content related to endurance sports, travel and adventure that reaches just under 246,000 unique monthly visitors.
“It’s important to keep candy consumption in moderation and to remember that there are always healthier alternatives to your favorite candies,” she said. “Keep in mind that too much sugar consumption is directly linked to weight gain, ADD, anxiety, depression, fatigue, and poor digestion and immune system function as it wreaks havoc on the blood sugar and creates an unhealthy microflora environment in the gut.”
Sorting through children’s trick or treat bounty is an essential step to avoiding these health concerns, but stocking your home with healthier alternatives to traditional candies is a great way to promote better eating habits year-round. In the article by The Active Times, Zamani provided a few examples of some of the unhealthiest Halloween candy, as well as some similar alternatives made with higher-quality, healthier ingredients. Treats from some of the world’s largest candy and cookie producers – including Hershey (NYSE: HSY), Mondelez International, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDLZ) and Tootsie Roll Industries, Inc. (NYSE: TR) – were highlighted as candies that should be enjoyed in extreme moderation.
“When you’re shopping for healthier alternatives check the ingredient list and look for labels that say things like organic, non-GMO, no artificial flavors, no synthetic preservatives and no artificial colors,” Zamani added.
In 2014, the Wall Street Journal reported that millions of Americans were opting for healthier food options, with caloric intake declining and consumers more commonly studying nutritional labels on food at grocery stores. Content Checked, through its innovative suite of nutrition-based mobile apps, is taking this trend to the next level. For consumers with specific dietary requirements and preferences, Content Checked is making shopping easier than ever before, and, as a result, the company is rapidly carving out a sustainable foothold in the country’s ongoing nutrition revolution.
To view the entire article by The Active Times, visit www.theactivetimes.com/fitness/nutrition/worst-halloween-candies-and-alternatives-are-healthier
For more information, visit www.contentchecked.com
CNCK Featured in Leading Non-Prescription and Nutritional Industries Publication
ContentChecked Holdings, Inc. was recently featured in “The Tan Sheet,” a leading trade publication that covers the non-prescription pharmaceutical and nutritional industries. In its October 9th issue, “The Tan Sheet” highlighted ContentChecked’s recently announced and unique partnership with Troy Healthcare.
Under the previously announced partnership, ContentChecked and Troy Healthcare have teamed up to apply their innovative products, MigraineChecked and Stopain® Migraine, respectively, to help consumers gain access preventative information and fast-acting relief from migraines.
MigraineChecked is a unique, free mobile app that scans food bar codes to help consumers detect and avoid the more than 250,000 packaged foods known to trigger migraines. MigraineChecked users can set up profiles and favorites for themselves, as well as for family members or friends who may also experience migraines. Stopain Migraine is a topical gel that provides safe, fast and effective migraine pain relief without pills, known side effects or the risk of drug interaction. Stopain Migraine does not include aspirin, caffeine or acetaminophen, and can be used alone or in conjunction with other medications since there are no known drug interactions.
“The Tan Sheet” is a weekly trade magazine that provides customers with essential regulatory, business and clinical information concerning the healthcare industry. As the over-the-counter (OTC) industry’s leading source of analysis, information and news, “The Tan Sheet” is read by a growing audience of executives, marketers, consultants and investors.
“The Tan Sheet’s” coverage of ContentChecked and Troy Healthcare provides both companies with considerable exposure among these invaluable demographics.
“We’re honored to be featured in such a reputable, industry-leading publication,” said Kris Finstad, CEO of ContentChecked, the developer of MigraineChecked, SugarChecked and ContentChecked, a family of health apps for people with dietary restrictions and/or food preferences. “As we continue to advance exposure and availability of the ContentChecked brand, exposure of this nature is highly favorable to our growth initiatives and to spreading the word of our innovative and exciting technologies.”
For more information visit www.contentchecked.com
CNCK Has Come Out Swinging in Aggressive Bid to Inform Consumers with Dietary Restrictions
More than 15 million Americans, or roughly 4.7 percent of the population, live with the constant fear of a severe reaction to a type of food that could result in an allergic reaction. Every aisle in the grocery store and every entrée on a restaurant menu could pose a potentially life-threatening risk of an allergic response that could result in anaphylactic shock, and even death. From seafood to nuts, the sources of danger are everywhere and many consumers have simply consigned themselves to the complex, laborious task of tediously perusing food labels, grilling restaurant wait staff, or nagging friends and family to be mindful of their allergies – all in hopes of avoiding a nasty reaction, hospital visit, or worse.
But there is good news, especially for the 191 million or more people in the U.S. who currently have some form of smartphone. Because app development company, ContentChecked Holdings, has engineered a robust, database-driven series of apps that rapidly index information on over 70 percent of all conventional food products, algorithmically checking in real-time if individual products are consistent with a given user’s specified allergy and/or dietary needs. The ability to simply point your smartphone at a product’s barcode and know in seconds after a scan if a given product is safe or healthy to consume is a massive time saver when it comes to completing the already often arduous and certainly always time-consuming task of shopping for groceries. The database that backs up the company’s apps is updated daily as industry information and end-user feedback is processed by a dedicated team of nutritional experts who are continuously vetting products in order to provide consumers with the most up-to-date and accurate information possible.
With a growing suite of function-specific apps, including one for allergy and dietary needs ContentChecked, as well as SugarChecked, an app for Type 2 diabetics and people simply trying to watch their intake of refined sugars, and MigraineChecked, an app specifically for the more than 36 million Americans who experience food and beverage-triggered migraines or chronic daily headaches, ContentChecked Holdings, Inc. has established itself in short order as a true innovator in consumer awareness utility apps. And the apps do far more than just help users stay away from certain items that are flagged based on their defined settings and preferences by prompting users with a quick menu of alternative options that are either safe or healthier than what they are looking for. This simple, yet ingenious, software allows friends or family members to shop for people with complex dietary restrictions and food allergies, and do so without enduring long, drawn-out product reviews via typically busy product labels, or having to memorize a litany of user-specific things to avoid.
This is a process for parents who have kids with food allergies, but now there is a solution that is just a few clicks away, thanks to CNCK. Users can simple go to Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG; GOOGL) Google Play store, or Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) AppStore, download the latest version of the company’s apps for a nominal fee, set them up for a specific user(s), and then shop with confidence – without the typical stress often associated with making complex dietary and allergy related calls while being jostled by other shoppers in the grocery aisle. The longer-term global potential for such apps is tremendous with a worldwide smartphone market that expanded 13 percent year over year in Q2 this year (according to International Data Corporation), and choice consumer markets in Europe and Asia which lack any similarly compelling offerings along these same lines.
Originally born out of a father’s frustration with the hassle of trying to help his daughter and her friends avoid food allergies and intolerances, with an initial release in Norway, the official launch of the company’s flagship ContentChecked app occurred as recently as February of 2015. Subsequent to going public in April of 2015 – after a reverse merger made ContentChecked a wholly-owned subsidiary of parent company CNCK and a $1.9 million private placement was secured for further development – this revolutionary company, which is creating the first truly user-centric marketplace for consumers and the businesses that cater to their needs, went on to quickly receive trading approval on OTCQB (in June), the primary OTC securities market for reporting issuers.
This still very young company’s product pipeline has a team of engineers at work behind the scenes constantly striving to keep the innovation ball rolling, with plans to tackle other usage demographics already in the offing, including apps for people who want to avoid GMO foods, or who want to eat a vegan, or kosher diet. In many ways the sky is the limit for this sort of rich, database-driven, user-centric consumer intelligence, and CNCK has no intention of resting on its laurels.
The company has come out of the box swinging hard in order to capture first-mover market share in what is an estimated $6 billion food allergy market. CNCK has managed to establish a noticeable presence in a very short time among consumers with dietary restrictions. Management is keen to keep on innovating, fully intent on evolving the company into the go-to source for in depth food and beverage product health and safety data.
Recognizing unmet needs shared by large groups of consumers and developing intuitive, easy to use apps that facilitate shopping or product avoidance/alternate product selection, via increasingly ubiquitous smartphones (which are now around 77 percent market penetration in the U.S.) is just half of he story here as well. The other half is the remainder of the marketplace created through such software, where producers, marketers and retailers themselves can begin to leverage the platform created by CNCK’s apps in order to directly court the business of consumers. The marketplace CNCK is creating will allow a wide range of supply-side entities to actively find and interact with consumers that seek out their products at the actual location of purchase. The very platform which today is primarily helping consumers make intelligent purchases, will no doubt become a major conduit for big data-driven marketing in the future, representing some very attractive digital real estate for CNCK that investors need to be aware of.
To dig deeper, visit ContentChecked at www.contentchecked.com
CNCK, Troy Healthcare Partnership Aims to Provide Migraine Prevention, Support
ContentChecked today reported its partnership with Troy Healthcare under which the two companies will use their innovative products, MigraineChecked and Stopain® Migraine, respectively, to help deliver preventative information and fast-acting relief for migraine sufferers.
According to the Migraine Research Foundation, migraines are among the top 20 of the world’s most disabling medical illnesses. By teaming up, ContentChecked and Troy Healthcare aim to help the 37 million Americans suffering from migraines find acute, preventative and complementary treatment for symptom relief by leveraging the benefits of their respective technologies.
MigraineChecked is one of ContentChecked’s family of free health apps for people with dietary restrictions and/or food preferences. MigraineChecked users can set up profiles and favorites, and use the app to scan food bar codes to identify and avoid the more than 250,000 packaged foods known to trigger migraines.
“Many migraines are triggered by specific ingredients in foods and beverages, from tannins to artificial sweeteners, and our app helps raise awareness of these hidden ingredients so migraine sufferers can make more informed choices simply by scanning bar codes on grocery packaging,” Kris Finstad, CEO of ContentChecked, stated in the news release. “This partnership with Stopain Migraine was ideal because, as a migraine sufferer myself, I’ve personally grown tired of oral medications and the side effects. Having an effective, topical pain relieving gel gives me and other migraine sufferers a new, safe option.”
Stopain Migraine is a new, topical migraine pain relieving gel that provides safe, fast and effective migraine pain relief without pills, known side effects, or the risk of drug interaction. The gel is applied topically as a measured dose on the back of the neck and behind each ear (an area where many migraines are believed to originate) and can be applied up to four times daily. Because Stopain Migraine is topical and does not include aspirin, caffeine or acetaminophen, it can be used alone or in conjunction with other medications since there are no known drug interactions. Stopain Migraine is currently available at most Walmart stores nationwide.
“With Stopain Migraine, consumers can experience fast relief of migraine pain without the risk of significant side effects,” says Anthony Cicini, vice president of Troy Healthcare, maker of Stopain Migraine and other pain-relieving over-the-counter products. “Stopain Migraine is formulated with Menthol, Belladonna, Iris Versicolor and Sanguinaria Canadensis, for a more natural approach to migraine pain relief.”
To download the free MigraineChecked app or for more information on ContentChecked visit www.ContentChecked.com; to learn more about Stopain Migraine, visit www.stopainmigraine.com.
CNCK Family of Database-Driven Mobile Apps Help Food Allergy, Diabetic, Vegan and Other Consumer Groups Shop
Publicly available data compiled by FARE (Food Allergy Research and Education) indicates that upwards of 15 million Americans suffer from some form of food allergy, many of whom are at risk from potentially going into life-threatening anaphylactic shock as a result of consuming the wrong thing. In an interview this May, director of the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy Research at Stanford University, Dr. Kari Nadeau, stated that the number of Americans suffering from food allergies was likely much higher, suggesting that the U.S. now has close to around 18 million people who suffer from food allergies of some kind.
The same is true across the pond in Europe, where a similar incident rate figure compounds an alarming rise in hospitalizations among children due to severe food reactions, the number of which has jumped seven-fold in the past decade according to the EAACI (European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology). The same kind of rise in incident rates among kids is occurring in the U.S., where during 2013 alone CDC data indicated that from the period between 1997 and 2011 food allergies in children increased as much as 50 percent. Also in 2013, JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) put the total annual food allergy-related healthcare cost per child at around $4,184, giving us a $24.8 billion figure nationwide, on an incident rate of one in every thirteen kids.
Needless to say, for millions of Americans, grocery shopping can be like walking through an allergen-containing product minefield. That is why mobile app developer, ContentChecked Holdings, Inc., has created its family of powerful shopping aides, including its eponymous flagship app, ContentChecked. The ContentChecked app is driven by a robust, constantly growing database of high-fidelity product data, covering 70 percent or more of all conventional U.S. products. A database full of rigorously analyzed food manufacturer data, vetted by a dedicated team of nutritional experts, and backed up by algorithmically-driven, on-the-fly dietary needs solutions that are tailored to the individual user. However, the most compelling aspect of this app might be the tight feedback loop with the user base itself, in that it allows for direct user-submitted product reviews to be performed and those entries added to the database. This feedback loop enables the database to grow organically, yet retain the rigorous standards of administration by top experts in nutrition.
Along the same lines as ContentChecked, CNCK has developed similar apps, customized to meet niche and not-so-niche market demographics. With apps like MigraineChecked and VeganChecked (slated for late 2015), as well as SugarChecked, an app to help what was roughly half the population in just 2012 that is either diabetic or prediabetic (National Diabetes Statistics Report, 2014), CNCK is at the forefront of a user-driven revolution in retail, powered by the rise of m-commerce. Given that diabetes alone is one of the top 10 leading causes of death in the U.S., the idea of a simple to use, intuitive and intelligent app, which was designed to help users quickly avoid products that contain high levels of refined sugars, is a real life saver in today’s increasingly hectic, mobile-centric world. The global smartphone market saw 11.6 year-over-year growth for second quarter 2015 in terms of units shipped, with 337.2 million smartphones hitting the streets, the second highest quarterly total on record according to IDC’s (International Data Corporation) July report. Putting the power in the hands of busy shoppers to quickly and easily check products against a database they can trust, is the kind of thing whose advent can potentially make huge waves in the retail space.
One of the best usability features of these apps is that anyone can use them, and thus shop for friends or loved ones that have food allergies with considerable ease. The time and effort saved by being able to simply have your smartphone signed in to the app with a user, or group of user’s allergies set, and then briefly point the camera at the barcode on a given product in order to trigger an automatic information page showing whether or not the product’s content is safe, changes everything when it comes to shopping for people with food allergies. That same information page which shows what allergens are present or not, allows users to also rate the product, or quickly browse a list of similar, alternative products that do not contain allergens.
This is also a superb way for manufacturers to showcase their products to what is an obviously growing demographic of people with food allergies, especially when you consider that 65 percent of children born to parents with food allergies will themselves inherit those same allergies. Seems like a pretty safe bet that demand for these apps won’t be going anywhere for the foreseeable future, and as more adults and kids develop food allergies, diabetes, migraines, or simply want to find organic vegan produce, the overall utility of and user base for such apps will only increase. These are just the first fruits from CNCK as well, and the company is dedicated to providing similarly unique, helpful mobile experiences that cater to other target markets, and which are amenable to the application of this same vetted product database technology.
The company has the vision to work at establishing itself long-term as the trusted go-to source for consumers or food buyers who are looking to maintain a clean and healthy product supply, leveraging a technology and approach that applies equally well to eating categories such as veganism, kosher or non-GMO, as it does to the task of seamlessly filtering allergen-containing foods, or those high in refined sugars. Providing user-customized search capability that extends to the brick and mortar product isle via mobile is an excellent business strategy for CNCK, and as it becomes clearer and clearer to manufacturers and advertisers that consumer-driven search fidelity is the supercharger of commerce, the search platform itself stands to become the billboard, with many of the associated benefits accruing to CNCK.
To take a closer look, visit www.contentchecked.com
CNCK – An Innovative Developer of Smartphone Applications
ContentChecked has fashioned a ground-breaking marketplace for people with food allergies, dietary restrictions, chronic headaches and migraines and the organizations that cater to them. By inventing and introducing its ContentChecked, SugarChecked and MigraineChecked smartphone applications to this market, ContentChecked is aiming to serve, in the US alone, an estimated 15 million people living with food-related allergies (a number that has grown by 50% in the last 14 years) and an estimated 38 million people suffering from migraine and chronic headaches.
These days, ContentChecked is moving from the successful initial launch of its ContentChecked app to the wider release and marketing of all of its apps so that it may continue to impact people worldwide.
The food allergy market alone has an estimated value of $6 billion USD. For this market, the company promotes two of its three apps: ContentChecked and SugarChecked. The company’s namesake ContentChecked allows users to enter their individual allergies into the app and to scan any bar code with their smartphone while shopping or at a friend’s home in order to find out immediately if they are allergic to that item. Similarly, the company’s newest app SugarChecked pinpoints the four main types of sugars that consumers can avoid, including added sugars, artificial sweeteners, natural low-calorie sweeteners and sugar alcohols. This application serves as an easy shopping tool for consumers looking to decode often-misleading food labels, and to receive recommendations for healthier alternatives while shopping in real time.
Along with ContentChecked, the company’s other app MigraineChecked has reached broad adoption levels. This app addresses the migraine and chronic headache market by linking a person’s migraine headache to certain foods.
All in all, ContentChecked’s apps allow users to use their smartphones to scan the bar code on any food item of interest and decide if it is safe for consumption. The apps also helps users to personalize their shopping lists and ensure they purchase products that are compatible with their specific food allergies and intolerances. If the food item is not suitable for consumption, the apps will recommend an appropriate substitute per the user’s specific dietary profile.
With its latest round of funding — a $4.5 million debt financing completed in September 2015 with Hillair Capital Investments, an award winning U.S. fund, the ContentChecked team will continue the journey they began when the company was founded in 2013 to create and commercialize their current and additional food-related apps worldwide.
For more information, visit www.contentchecked.com or www.sugarchecked.com
CNCK Taking the Fight to Excessive Sugar with Intuitive SugarChecked App
Content Checked Holdings, through its innovative family of smartphone applications, is addressing the 15 million people in the U.S. living with food allergies, as well as the 38 million people suffering from migraines and chronic headaches. With a simple barcode scan, consumers using the ContentChecked, MigraineChecked and SugarChecked apps can research a food item of interest and immediately be alerted to potential conflicts with their specific dietary needs. While the apps were created to suit the requirements of people with strict dietary restrictions, they are becoming increasingly popular with individuals seeking to improve the quality of their diets by eliminating potentially harmful ingredients.
SugarChecked, in particular, is a popular tool for helping health-conscious shoppers avoid products that have been shown to stimulate diabetes, cancer, obesity and related medical conditions. According to a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately 29 million people in the U.S., or 9.3 percent of the population, have diabetes. Additionally, 86 million adults aged 20 years and older have prediabetes, which means that their blood sugar levels are higher than normal but not yet high enough to be classified as type 2 diabetes. Without intervention, prediabetes is likely to become type 2 diabetes in 10 years or less, according to the Mayo Clinic, but studies have shown that healthy lifestyle changes, including eating a healthier diet, can be effective in preventing further progression. In this respect, the market potential for CNCK’s groundbreaking apps is effectively limitless.
In terms of preventing diabetes, SugarChecked is a powerful tool for those looking to improve their diet. The app identifies four main types of sugar – including added sugars, artificial sweeteners, natural low-calorie sweeteners and sugar alcohols – in order to help consumers decipher often-misleading food labels. If a product doesn’t fit into the user’s specific profile, SugarChecked will reference CNCK’s robust database, which includes hundreds of thousands of products, and suggest healthier alternatives in real time.
“SugarChecked addresses a growing problem while empowering people to make smarter choices about their diet,” Kris Finstad, chief executive officer of ContentChecked, stated in a news release. “With cases of diabetes and obesity on the rise – and a direct negative correlation from the excessive intake of sugar – it’s important that we as consumers fully understand the ingredients that go into our food and bodies and what our families eat.”
The SugarChecked app, as well as ContentChecked and MigraineChecked, is currently available for download on the App Store and Google Play.
For more information, visit www.contentchecked.com or www.sugarchecked.com
CNCK is “One to Watch”
ContentChecked Holdings is the parent company of a family of mobile applications designed for individuals with specific dietary requirements. Since the official U.S. launch of its first app in early 2015, ContentChecked has continued to build its database of product information obtained from food manufacturers – the database now incorporates 70% of all conventional U.S. products, fully supporting the needs of ContentChecked customers.
Consumers register their food allergies or intolerances with ContentChecked, and simply scan the bar codes of whichever items they are considering purchasing. The app then provides users with information on what products fit their pre-set requirements. This connection between food producers and users is the basis of the ContentChecked business model – a highly engaged consumer, ready to buy, and in need of recommendations.
By initially focusing upon food allergies and intolerances, ContentChecked had access to a marketplace of more than 15 million people in the United States that suffer from food allergies, in addition to a demographic who develop stomach problems as a result of different foods. Though the overall market for food allergies and intolerances is valued at $13 billion in 2015, ContentChecked further expanded its market reach through the launch of MigraineChecked, SugarChecked and VeganChecked applications.
With these offerings, ContentChecked’s market reach now extends to the roughly 38 million people in the United States currently diagnosed with migraines; as well as to the largest health-related cost in the country: the 97 million people at risk of developing, or have already developed, Type 2 diabetes. ContentChecked’s growth is spearheaded by a talented team of professionals using their experience in entrepreneurial endeavors, sales, marketing and advisory services, nutrition, web design, social media and graphics and data management to help users better manage their food allergies, migraines, and overall health.
For more information, visit www.contentchecked.com
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Content Checked Holdings Inc. (CNCK) is the parent company of a family of mobile applications designed for individuals with specific dietary preferences and requirements. Since the official U.S. launch of its namesake app in early 2015, ContentChecked has continued to build its database of product information. Information is obtained from food manufacturers and internal proprietary research. The database now incorporates 70% of all conventional U.S. products, fully supporting the needs of ContentChecked customers.
Consumers register their food allergies or intolerances with ContentChecked, and simply scan the bar codes of whichever items they are considering purchasing. The app then provides users with information on what products fit their pre-set requirements. This connection between food producers and users is the basis of the CNCK business model – a highly engaged consumer, ready to buy, and in need of recommendations.
By initially focusing upon food allergies and intolerances, ContentChecked had access to a marketplace of more than 15 million people in the United States that suffer from food allergies in addition to a demographic with specific preferences or who develop digestive problems as a result of different foods. Though the overall market for food allergies and intolerances is valued at $13 billion in 2015, CNCK further expanded its market reach through the launch of MigraineChecked, SugarChecked and VeganChecked applications.
With these offerings, Content Checked's market reach now extends to the roughly 38 million people in the United States currently diagnosed with migraines; as well as to the largest health-related cost in the country: the 97 million people at risk of developing, or have already developed, Type 2 diabetes. CNCK growth is spearheaded by a talented team of professionals using their experience in entrepreneurial endeavors, sales, marketing and advisory services, nutrition, web design, social media and graphics and data management to help users better manage their food allergies, migraines and overall health.
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App Overview
Content Checked apps offer a unique mobile experience that analyzes more than 70% of all food products in the United States to check if they fit the specific dietary needs of the user. The process is based upon more than algorithms – it utilizes a dedicated team of nutritional experts that validate data against the most up-to-date research to ensure quality. This process is done 24/7 and is constantly undergoing review so that the app can provide as accurate information as possible with each use.
Here's How it Works
Grocery shopping can be time-consuming, especially for individuals and family members of persons with specific dietary restrictions. Content Checked's suite of mobile applications apps save precious time and avoid unnecessary stress while grocery shopping, enabling friends and family enjoy peace of mind while shopping and preparing foods for persons with dietary restrictions.
From migraines to food allergies, Content Checked apps can help the more than 28% of Americans with an allergy or intolerance to various ingredients, as well as the more than 38 million Americans suffering from migraines. With Content Checked's technology, persons with dietary restriction and allergies always have the power shop confidently for themselves and others.
Content Checked apps also utilize a comprehensive menu and recipe database to provide tips and ideas on how to prepare specific foods for those who need have restrictions. The apps allow users to set up profiles and lists of favorites for themselves, friends and family, making sharing favorites and ideas safe, fun, simple and easy.
The apps also allow food manufacturers to showcase their products in an effective and relevant way, providing them with a platform to communicate to those suffering with dietary restrictions on a variety of alternatives that are better suited to their needs. As such, both manufacturers and consumers benefit from targeted communication.
Consumer Solution
Suite of Apps & Market Relevance
Content Checked's suite of smart phone apps are designed for people with food allergies or intolerances and those who care for them. ContentChecked originally launched in Norway where a 20% market share was quickly captured, and the U.S. version is on track to match the same growth rate. The company has received overwhelming support from food allergy and intolerance organizations.
The ContentChecked app allows users to input their individual allergies into the app and then scan any bar code with their smartphone to determine if there is a food allergy in that particular item. MigraineChecked app addresses a person's migraine headache connections to certain foods; while the company's recently launched SugarChecked app highlights the sugar content of food and forms sugar takes in consumed food.
ContentChecked Technology
MigraineChecked
SugarChecked App
VeganChecked App
$13B Food Allergy & Intolerance Market
U.S. Market Performance
The app is monetized by charging food producers monthly advertising fees in exchange for recommending their alternative product for sale to the user.
Allergens selected will produce an "alternative" based on a scan of a product. The alternative product is one supported by a food manufacturer's advertising spend to market their alternative to the ContentChecked user.
Management
The team of professionals at Content Checked are dedicated to making the world a better place, applying the vast benefits of how technology can improve our lives and those around us. Leveraging a rich history of diverse experience, specialties and vision, Content Checked's management team continually lays the foundation for progressive achievements and product applications. The team is backed by a nutrition staff that keeps the products relevant and cutting-edge.
Kris Finstad | CEO Kris Finstad founded Content Checked in 2013. Kris has been a professional investor since 2003 through various investment vessels. He is co-founder of CheckContent AS, Norway, Scandinavian branch of a food allergy application company. Kris attended a private boarding school (Lundsbergs in Sweden), and Millfield School in England. Kris also holds a Master's Degree in Business Administration. Kris has co-founded and funded several start-ups in technology, real estate and bio-tech, and has held several board positions.
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Olav Madland | CTO Olav Madland was formerly the CEO of Seamless AS – Maritime IT where he successfully was responsible for establishing product strategies, developing contracts and data deliveries. Prior to that Olav was with SEB Cards (MasterCard/ EuroCard) where he was responsible for all commercial aspects, including P&L for 800,000 credit cards and 70,000 travel accounts. At NetCom, Olav was the product, market and sales director for the corporate market. At Telenor Mobil Olav was the IT manager where he developed IT strategy, project management, project execution and project evaluation. Telenor Mobil - head of "Kompass," consisting of 12 parallel work streams process and product improvements to Telenor's mobile business. Overall responsibility for the business development and business rules at Telenors mobile business Olav has a Master's Degree in IT and an MBA in technology, organizational theory and governance.
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David Wells | CFO David Wells is the founder of StoryCorp Consulting, whose charter is to provide business and financial services to growing, small cap public companies. He has held several CFO positions and similar roles with public and privately held companies. He was president, CFO and director of Sionix Corporation. He has held positions with Voyant International Corp., Reach Messaging, Inc., Migo Software, Inc., BroadStream, Inc., Hollywood Stock Exchange and Cord Blood America, Inc. David has nearly 30 years of experience in finance and operations. David holds an MBA from Pepperdine University and is a member of their Senior Fellows. He has held roles with The Leukemia Foundation and was on the board of directors of Associated Services for International Adoption.
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Jim Herman | Vice President Jim Herman has been an entrepreneur and international consultant for more than 30 years. He founded JSH Management, which provided sales, marketing and advisory services to consumer electronics companies: VSD Publications, which published U.S. entertainment industry magazines, and Positive Protection Services, which sold consumer electronics warranty contracts. Jim has provided consultant and advisory services internationally. His clients have included Toshiba Corporation/Japan, Hanny Magnetics/Hong Kong, Hutchinson Whampoa/Hong Kong, Mediacopy/USA, Sunkyung/Korea, Memorex/USA, Memorex Telex N.V., Infodisc/Taiwan, Shipworks Group/Australia, TEN Media/USA/ and Insulin Algorithms/USA.
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