Jul 20th

Fooducate

This application will come in handy during your trip to the grocery store. Fooducate analyzes nutrition labels and ingredients lists so you can make better choices at the market. You can scan a product barcode and Fooducate will highlight the good and bad qualities such as calories, fat content, sodium, artificial flavoring and more. It will also grade the product from A+ to F to help simplify things. If the product doesn’t make an A, it will provide alternatives that do; to ensure you are making the healthiest choice. Dieticians developed the application, so you don’t have to worry about the food companies having any influence on the grade. It also points out possible portion control issues- such as a 20 fl oz soda bottle listing nutrition facts for an 8 fl oz bottle. Over 160,000 products are analyzed, which should cover everything in your shopping cart! This application is free and currently available for iPhone and Android phones.

Get it here for iPhone and Android phones! Happy scanning!

Comments

Post new comment

The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.
CAPTCHA
This question is for testing whether you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.
Image CAPTCHA
Enter the characters shown in the image.

You May Also Like

  • 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.
  • Harmful Ingredients in Vitamins & Supplements
    Those of use who take vitamins, herbal supplements and superfoods do so for a common goal: to be as healthy as possible by gaining nutrients that we may be lacking in our diets.  Vitamins are available everywhere; not only are they sold at nutrition stores and health food stores but at pharmacies, Costco, grocery stores, convenience stores and even some gas stations.

    As manufacturers grow, it's hard to tell which product is actually beneficial. As there are so many factors to good food, the same applies to supplements.  The key word to remember is quality. Just because a product contains the alphabet soup of nutrients doesn't mean that the product is going to help you.  Also, just because a product boasts the benefits of 10,000 flowers doesn't mean that they didn't spray the crop with pesticides. It's really hard to know what to take and what to avoid.

    The following ingredients are commonly found in supplements. Read labels and start by avoiding product that contain these excipients (fillers to speed up production and binders used to "glue" the nutrients together).
  • The Carrot
    Tracking food intake, workouts, and supplements can become draining, but this application makes it easy and fun! The Carrot is the leading life management tracker with many benefits. It offers 30+ different trackers for health and lifestyle. It even offers assistance to quit smoking using a gradual approach. It’s simple and well organized. It gives you the ability to search for nutritional info, medications, symptoms, and more. You can track things however you want- by time, date, duration, symptoms, etc. If you are tracking your nutritional information it gives you instant access to more than 20,000 foods. A unique and helpful feature is also its ability to correlate tracked items into a personalized chart. For example, how does mood impact food intake? Which foods trigger headaches? Identifying triggers can motivate users to proactively change habits and behaviors. You can then share all of this information with your physician, nutritionist, trainer, or whomever you please.

    It is free to download and is currently available for iPhone and iPod touch.