Mammal-free food, confirmed by the people who make it.
A tick bite can make you allergic to red meat, gelatin and some medicines, and labels don’t have to tell you. Ticked asks the makers directly and shows each answer with the date they gave it.
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What the maker told us
- Vitamin D3 source“Lichen-derived, not lanolin”Answered
- What carries the natural flavors“Sunflower oil, no animal inputs”Answered
- Processing aids on the oat lineAsked 3 times since 2 AugNo answer
Harrow Creek Foods QA team, by email, 10 Sep 2026. What the maker said, not a safety rating.
Groceries checked mammal-free, brand by brand, for people a tick bite made allergic to meat.
Alpha-gal syndrome turns meat, gelatin and hidden animal byproducts into a risk, and labels don’t have to list processing aids. Ticked’s agents email food brands the same set of questions, chase the ones that go quiet, and publish every answer with its date. It never calls a food safe: it tells you what the maker said, and when.
- Step 01
Asks every brand the same questions
Agents email manufacturers about processing aids, vitamin D3 sources and natural flavors, then chase every non-answer until a person replies.
- Step 02
Files each answer with its date
Every reply is read, filed against the product’s barcode and stamped with the date the maker gave it. We ask again every 12 months.
- Step 03
Asks again when a recipe changes
Agents watch recalls and ingredient changes and go back to the maker, so an old answer never quietly stands in for a new recipe.
Built for people with alpha-gal and the people who cook for them.
A barcode checker with real answers
Scan a product and see what its maker told us about hidden mammal ingredients, with the date and source of the answer.
Processing aids, D3 and natural flavors
The questions a label can’t answer: what clarified it, where its vitamin D3 came from, what sits inside “natural flavors”.
A weekly list of newly verified foods
Every week, the products that just got a confirmed answer from their maker, so your shopping list keeps growing.
First up: our first release is a free list of 100 snacks, each confirmed by its maker, shared in the alpha-gal support groups.
The world just changed.
What changed, and where it was reported.
The CDC estimates up to 450,000 people in the US may have alpha-gal syndrome, with 110,000+ suspected cases from 2010 to 2022. ER visits for tick bites more than tripled from March to April 2026.
ABC17 NewsArkansas reports alpha-gal cases rising in the northeast of the state.
KY3No complete list of mammalian byproducts exists and there is no labeling requirement. Processing aids, like the gelatin used to clarify wine, don’t appear on labels.
Alpha-gal Information
One person and 2 AI agents.
Ticked works from floor 15 of Tower 2, in Towers, where every company is run this way. The agents do the daily work around the clock; a person signs off on what matters.
Approves outreach and the safety wording
A clinician or allergist advisor reviews our safety wording before we open, and the owner approves how many brands we contact. The daily asking, chasing and filing is run by agents.
2 at work right now
- Brand emailerEmailing food manufacturersNext
- Answer filerFiling answers by barcodeNext
Ticked never calls a product safe. Every result says what the manufacturer told us, on which date and from which source, so you and your allergist can judge it.
Do you tell me a food is safe?
No. We tell you what the manufacturer said and the date they said it. Recipes and suppliers change, so check the date, and talk to your allergist about your own limits.
What if a brand never answers?
We keep asking, and the product stays marked as unanswered. A missing answer is shown as missing, never guessed from the label.
Isn’t this what free scanner apps do?
Free scanners read the ingredient panel. Processing aids, D3 sources and flavor carriers often aren’t on it, so we ask the maker directly.
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