Hi, I'm Morgan

If you are here, you probably know the exact feeling of standing in a grocery aisle, staring at a nutrition label, and trying to decipher if a single ingredient is going to ruin your day.

I know that feeling, I’ve been there more times than I can count. For most of my life, I dealt with bizarre symptoms and unanswered questions. After more than 200 “unremarkable” blood tests and being told everything was fine, I finally had a test come back abnormal – Sucrase Isomaltase Deficiency – at the age of 34, after having my second child.

Getting that information was a relief, even though I didn’t beleive it could even be true at first. But figuring out how to actually eat is incredibly frustrating. The medical jargon is dense, safe food lists are incomplete, contradictory even, and there is no practical, day-to-day guide for navigating the chaos—especially as a mum managing a household.

Before becoming a stay-at-home mum five years ago, I spent a decade working in industrial automation, eventually becoming a senior engineer. I spent years inside some of New Zealand’s biggest food & beverage manufacturers, programming the very machines that produce packaged foods. My entire career is built on taking massive, chaotic systems and automating them to make them work efficiently – something I just can’t stop applying to my life every day.

So, I did the only thing I knew how to do: I started coding to try and organize the chaos for myself and my family.

I’ve built algorithms to map out enzyme comparisons and create a search tool just to make my own life easier. Honestly, we are incredibly fortunate to have secured the licensing to access raw food data from major global and government organizations. Having access to those massive databases is the engine that truly makes this platform possible—it is what empowers us to pull all these fragmented, hard-to-find details together into one centralized hub for our community.

That private project—which some of you might remember as DD-checker—eventually grew into the platform you are looking at right now. Today, I am in the process of restarting my own tech company, TechHappy, which had been on hold for the better part of a decade while raising my three kids.

But I am still just a one-woman-band behind the keyboard, and I need your help.

Between raising my family and blowing the dust off TechHappy, I am not always actively developing new features here. This platform works best when it is driven by the community. Here is how you can get involved:

• Share Your Experience: Found an ingredient that works for you? Log in and leave a rating or comment! Your review might be the exact reassurance someone else needs before trying a new food.

• Be My QA Team: If a search tool breaks, a chart looks weird, or a page just isn’t loading, please use the form below to tell me. If I don’t know it’s broken, I can’t fix it!

• Request Missing Foods: The databases (like the USDA packaged foods list) are massive, but they aren’t perfect. If your go-to safe food is missing, let me know so I can track it down.

If you have any questions about how to use the disaccharide checker, need help reading the enzyme charts, or just want to connect, send me a message using the contact form below or find me in the CSID Facebook support groups.

Eat safe (and check out the recipe section!),

Morgan