Jul 20th

Chemical Cuisine

The rule of thumb is that you shouldn’t eat anything that you don’t recognize. These days, so many products are loaded with chemicals that make a simple ingredients list a mile long. Chemical Cuisine is a new application that will help you decipher these mysterious chemicals to determine if you want to put it in your body or not. Simply type in the chemical and it will give you a detailed description of what the chemical is, what it’s usually found in, and if it’s safe or not. The application was developed by the Center for Science in the Public Interest and goes for $0.99 on iTunes and works with both iPhone and Android phones.

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