Food Benefits

Making healthy the easy choice 

With our custom APLs and flexible technology, upgrading your food benefits program is a whole lot easier.

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Smarter food benefits

Our scalable solutions connect benefit recipients with a wide assortment of eligible foods, down to the UPC level and fine-tuned to their health and cultural needs.

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Increased benefit use

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Better diet adherence

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Positive health outcomes

Better nutrition can help prevent 95% of all disease. [Tufts]
Poor diet results in $2 trillion of excess medical & productivity costs per year. [Tufts]
People need a variety of food choices to adhere to a diet.

Smarter food benefits delivery with Sifter

The Challenge

Successful programs need to provide easy access to a variety of nutritious, culturally appropriate foods

Sifter's Approach

Our scalable solutions connect participants with a wide assortment of eligible foods, down to the UPC level and fine-tuned to their health and cultural needs.

The Result

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Increased benefit use

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Better diet adherence

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Positive health outcomes

Sifter Professional Network

For nutrition professionals and fitness coaches. Achieve a deeper level of engagement with your clients.

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Listing in the Sifter Professional Network directory that connects interested shoppers with your practice.

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Counseling support tools to help your clients discover a wider variety of foods that comply with your dietary guidance.

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CEU educational sessions throughout the year on trending nutrition topics.

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Opportunity for a co-branded version of the Sifter.shop platform.

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Leverage the power of our custom APLs

Sifter delivers best-in-class Approved Product Lists (APLs) to strengthen the integrity of your food benefits program, whether it's produce Rx, medically tailored groceries, or filtered spend cards. Using evidence-based rules, innovative AI, and machine learning, we build custom APLs that meet your program guidelines, driving the highest level of participant redemption.

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Variety and choice: Sifter can build APLs that offer an unprecedented choice of grocery foods in all categories, extending the opportunity for affordable healthy options in frozen, packaged, and convenience foods.

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Accuracy: Our APLs deliver accurately identified foods, ensuring benefits are used for their intended purpose. 

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Science-based: Custom APL methodology is verified and guarantees specifications are met.

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Quality assurance: Sifter's nutrition team reviews, updates, and validates food product data regularly and before delivery.

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"Policymakers, healthcare providers and social service organizations have begun to recognize that connecting people with complex health conditions to Food is Medicine interventions is an effective and low-cost strategy to improve health outcomes, decrease utilization of expensive health service and enhance patient quality of life."
– Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation of Harvard Law School, December 2020

Sifter works within the whole ecosystem

Sifter technology works with all companies in the food benefits space, including:

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Health insurance companies that offer customized supplemental benefits programs

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FinTech platforms that enable filtered spend or programmable payments 

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Benefit aggregators that streamline operations to simplify benefits usage for providers and participants

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SaaS platforms that create customizable digital payment solutions for specific food needs

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Health networks that partner with grocery stores to provide healthy food vouchers

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Not-for-profit agencies that provide ready-to-eat meals or meal kits

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Products by retailer store

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Allow clients and patients to shop where they want


Our retailer network includes more than 35,000 national and local food stores — and is growing

Sifter connects to food retailers nationwide

Sifter's retailer network currently includes more than 35,000 national and local food stores, and we can activate additional food retailers within your program.

Our AI technology can run dietary attribution against any retailer's products, quickly and accurately identifying eligible foods, down to the UPC level, including where they can be purchased by zip code.

Sifter reimagines food benefits

Our mission is to make healthy the easy choice. Sifter's UPC-specific fresh food and branded product database is backed with science-based dietary attribution that provides the customization needed to deliver a truly effective food benefits program. Contact us today for more details.