How to use the Fussy Vegan Smart Search feature

What is Smart search?

Fussy Vegan Smart Search lets you search for products and food chain menu items using natural language.

Instead of typing exact product names, you can search using everyday phrases like:

• “lollies at Coles”
• “chips without palm oil”
• “bread with no soy”

The app will interpret your search and return the most relevant products.

What Smart Search can do

AI search is designed to help you find products based on:

General product searches

• “bread”
• “chocolate biscuits”
• “vegan snacks”

Store-specific searches

• “lollies at Coles”
• “snacks at Woolworths”

 Ingredient exclusions

• “chips without palm oil”
• “sauce with no garlic or onion”
• “bread with no soy”

 Vegan-focused searches

• “vegan australia”
• “certified vegan products”

What Smart Search can’t do (yet)

Fussy Vegan Smart Search is powerful, but it’s not perfect.

It may struggle with:

• Very long or complex sentences
• Highly specific or niche queries
• Multiple restrictions combined together
  (e.g. “bread at coles with no soy gluten dairy and low sugar”)

It is not:

• A conversational chatbot
• A guarantee that all matching products will be shown
• Perfect at understanding every possible phrasing

Tips for better results

If you’re not getting results, try:

• Using fewer words
• Removing words like “no soy” or other restrictions
• Searching more generally (e.g. “bread”)
• Removing store names (e.g. “Coles”)
• Checking spelling

No results?

If no products are found, don’t worry.

This usually means your search is too specific or restrictive.

Try simplifying your search and running it again.

About your search

When you use Smart Search:

• Your search is recorded anonymously
• No personal information is collected
• Searches are used to improve results over time

This helps us make the Smart Search smarter and more accurate.

We’re improving it constantly

Smart Search is actively being improved based on real usage.

The more it’s used, the better it gets.

What Smart Search currently covers

At the moment, Smart Search is focused on:

• Products
• Menu items (from food chains)

What’s coming next

We’re actively working on expanding Smart Search to include:

• Restaurants
• Recipes
• Additives

Why this is being rolled out in stages

We’re focusing on getting product search working as well as possible first.

By improving accuracy and learning from real searches, we can make sure future features are just as reliable.