Looking to lose a few pounds? Want to be sure you’re meeting your daily nutritional requirements? Like barcodes? Then have we got good news for you!
DailyBurn, a web site dedicated to tracking your diet and fitness data, has released the FoodScanner app [iTunes Link], which gives you the ability to scan food items’ barcodes to quickly update your daily intake of fat, calories carbs and more. If you’ve ever tried entering nutritional data manually, particularly on a smartphone, you know what a great idea this is.
FoodScanner uses the iPhone’s camera as a barcode scanner. Point the camera at a food item’s UPC and the app does the rest. DailyBurn has over 200,000 food items in its database, and if you happen to run across something not yet listed, you can input the data within the app. Eating something like fruit that rudely doesn’t include a UPC? You can search the database for those foods, too.
If you have a DailyBurn account and an iPhone, this seems like a serious no-brainer to us.
View/Download DailyBurn FoodScanner (Opens in iTunes)
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FoodScanner Demo from Andy Smith on Vimeo.
