Fooducate Fridays
An App A Day! -- Fooducate is a free app designed for iPhones and Android Smart Phones, and also in website format at www.fooducate.com. The purpose of this app is to provide practical advice for buying healthy food at the supermarkets and grocery stores. After you download the app, it allows you to scan any food or beverage’s barcode and find out how healthy that food is based on a grade from A through D. There are over 160,000 products in the Fooducate database, and the number is growing daily! Once a product is scanned, the software analyzes the information in the nutrition panel and ingredient list, and gives positive and negative information about the ingredients, sodium content, fat content, nutrients, etc. Fooducate provides reasons as to exactly why the product earned the grade it received, revealing secrets manufacturers do not want consumers to notices such as excessive sugar, trans fat, additives and preservatives, high fructose corn syrup, controversial food coloring, and many others. On top of that, Fooducate will then suggest healthier alternatives which are similar to the product scanned, but maybe a different brand or type of product. This app also allows you to scan multiple food items to compare the nutritional information and recommend the healthier choice.
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