Take a picture to know how many calories App...

[marylander1940]

It's Sunday morning and you're out for a delightful brunch. You know that mile high stack of chocolate chip pancakes blanketed with maple syrup is outside of your diet, but you're just not quite sure how much. And then from across the table, your brunch mate snaps a shot of the stack and within minutes you know the damage. It turns out this is entirely possible.

 

According to a story on Reuters, which I first saw on Mother Nature Network, a new smart phone app can do just that. After taking a picture of a food item, the info is transmitted to a calorie database and within minutes it returns the range of calories in your meal.

 

The app is called MealSnap and it can transmit information for over 500,000 food items.

 

http://health.howstuffworks.com/wellness/diet-fitness/information/new-phone-app-computes-calories-by-taking-a-picture-of-your-meal.htm

 

[rvwnsd]

It's Sunday morning and you're out for a delightful brunch. You know that mile high stack of chocolate chip pancakes blanketed with maple syrup is outside of your diet, but you're just not quite sure how much. And then from across the table, your brunch mate snaps a shot of the stack and within minutes you know the damage. It turns out this is entirely possible.

 

According to a story on Reuters, which I first saw on Mother Nature Network, a new smart phone app can do just that. After taking a picture of a food item, the info is transmitted to a calorie database and within minutes it returns the range of calories in your meal.

 

The app is called MealSnap and it can transmit information for over 500,000 food items.

 

http://health.howstuffworks.com/wellness/diet-fitness/information/new-phone-app-computes-calories-by-taking-a-picture-of-your-meal.htm

 

I like it. Sadly, I saw the post after I finished dinner, but there is always tomorrow.

 

It would be interesting to take a photo of wild caught shrimp fried in house-made farm-to-table batter with a side of organic whole-wheat pasta topped with house-made alfredo sauce and one of the same meal made with Red Lobster-style ingredients and see if the calories, fat, and sodium values came up different.