iPhone Application: FoodEssential Reads the Food for You

Written by GdroiD Tuesday, 11 May 2010 03:25

Too much sugar will kill you. Well, this can be true if you consume sugar more than the regular consumption every day in your life. If you are the one who cares about being healthy, you surely will keep monitoring your health condition. Today, you can control every food you eat with one simple application Scanner FoodEssentials. This Apple’s application enables you to scan your food and identify everything contain in your food before you decide to consume it.

This application is designed with the capability to scan barcode in the food package. This is an essential application because by scanning the food package users will get information whether the food is free sugar or not. Everyone can use this smart application, especially for those who are avoiding sugar-contained food or diabetes. So, iPhone users can determine how much sugar to consume.

Besides monitoring the sugar substances, Scanner FoodEssentials offers other ability which is scanning every single substance or ingredient of the food. If you are allergic of certain food substance you would know it right away. This can be very valuable application because FoodEssential includes the Food Label Database, this database is the accumulation of the most comprehensive details or data that is used by many retailers, US government institute, and anyone who wants to know further about the details of substances inside the food.

With single scanning to barcode, this application will show you the specific results about everything inside the food package. As additional information, barcode does not only contain the price of the food you are about to buy but also the substances inside the food with more details information than the label on the food package.

The benefits of using this application will be really great, besides preventing the sugar illness risk, this also prevents the allergy to occur because most people would know at the very beginning the details inside the food. Thus, people would be more aware of their own health.

To be more specific, Scanner Database is able to monitor 13 types of allergic-trigger food, 26 addictive substances, and 35.000 other substances. The database will always be updated with more details of food substances every week. To be honest, this barcode scanner is not the first technology appear into view because there was similar application that was developed for iPhone application. The development was conducted by Deakin University, Australia with Nestle and GS1 organization.