SMART PHONE USERS GET THIS APP ASAP

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  • MamaBear57
    MamaBear57 Posts: 336 Member
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  • MystikPixie
    MystikPixie Posts: 342 Member
    bump for later
  • EmilyOfTheSun
    EmilyOfTheSun Posts: 1,548 Member
    I used to think that eating a Hot Pocket everyday for lunch was healthy because it was only 300 calories. I think about that often and just have to laugh at myself now.
  • hjdavies2326
    hjdavies2326 Posts: 26 Member
    Not available in my country #sadface


    Edit- get honestlabel for uk users
  • Reeny1_8
    Reeny1_8 Posts: 277
    Just downloaded to my iPhone and iPad, thank you so much!
  • fitnessyeoja
    fitnessyeoja Posts: 357 Member
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  • TriShamelessly
    TriShamelessly Posts: 905 Member
    Love all the food and fitness Nazis on here bashing the OP for trying to be helpful to the others on the forum. It was suggested as an educational tool for people, not as the be all and end of health and nutrition. So, if you have a Ph.D. in nutrition science, or at least think you do, then give out your name and number and hourly rate for consultation. Otherwise, try to be supportive or JSTFU.
  • zaph0d
    zaph0d Posts: 1,172 Member
    Love all the food and fitness Nazis on here bashing the OP for trying to be helpful to the others on the forum. It was suggested as an educational tool for people, not as the be all and end of health and nutrition. So, if you have a Ph.D. in nutrition science, or at least think you do, then give out your name and number and hourly rate for consultation. Otherwise, try to be supportive or JSTFU.

    It's a common and annoying misconception that one requires a degree or credentials to be able to easily identity bull$hit.
  • tbear60
    tbear60 Posts: 16
    I don't have a smart phone but would not mind an app if it could scan it and tell me in BIGGER letters what is in it. I totally avoid all trans fats, hydrogenated, partially hydrogenated and now they are using intenserfied (sp) items and most of the time the labels are printed so tiny I can't read them! Getting older sucks and I don't care to take reading glasses with me everyplace I go, then have to take them on and of and on and off just to read what may be in the food I buy. An app that you could put ingredients in you are trying to avoid would be nice to have, scan it, it can quickly tell you if those are in it or not, and move on. I don't like to stand in the store and have to read all the labels to see what they may have put in it that I don't care to eat. Just saying...Thanks for sharing, I will have to check it out and see what it actually does when I do get a smart phone. :)
  • sandradev1
    sandradev1 Posts: 786 Member
    Love all the food and fitness Nazis on here bashing the OP for trying to be helpful to the others on the forum. It was suggested as an educational tool for people, not as the be all and end of health and nutrition. So, if you have a Ph.D. in nutrition science, or at least think you do, then give out your name and number and hourly rate for consultation. Otherwise, try to be supportive or JSTFU.

    It's a common and annoying misconception that one requires a degree or credentials to be able to easily identity bull$hit.

    ^^THIS^^^
  • TriShamelessly
    TriShamelessly Posts: 905 Member
    Love all the food and fitness Nazis on here bashing the OP for trying to be helpful to the others on the forum. It was suggested as an educational tool for people, not as the be all and end of health and nutrition. So, if you have a Ph.D. in nutrition science, or at least think you do, then give out your name and number and hourly rate for consultation. Otherwise, try to be supportive or JSTFU.

    It's a common and annoying misconception that one requires a degree or credentials to be able to easily identity bull$hit.

    Like your profile?
  • cforte07
    cforte07 Posts: 2
    Oh this is awesome! Thank you so much! And for those people with questions, they have a great website about the app that is super detailed: http://www.fooducate.com/

    I am making my next grocery list with their list of foods and my local grocery store coupon newsletter! I'm excited! Thanks :)
  • Shock_Wave
    Shock_Wave Posts: 1,573 Member
    I am not scared to try some thing new and I just downloaded this app. after checking it out on the web. The only reason is because I wanted to see if it would call out foods with MSG. on the quick screen that this app has and it did woohoo!! MSG makes my head feel loopy and weird and it fks with my nerves. I can totally use this when I go grocery shopping to scan things as it will make it WAAYYY faster to identify foods with MSG in it. It certainly beats having to stand there and closely and I mean closely sift reading through the fine azz print on the labels of all the foods I am interested in eating. I just hope it identify's foods that mask MSG under the other names..
    ETA:^ oh awesome it does .. Way cool


    THANK YOU OP!! srs :drinker: :bigsmile:
  • emmie0622
    emmie0622 Posts: 167 Member
    Have it and LOVE IT!! :heart: :heart: Was shocked , some of the "healthy" things I was eating got grades of D from them.
  • hofdog
    hofdog Posts: 269 Member
    So basically it reads the label for you?
  • zaph0d
    zaph0d Posts: 1,172 Member
    Love all the food and fitness Nazis on here bashing the OP for trying to be helpful to the others on the forum. It was suggested as an educational tool for people, not as the be all and end of health and nutrition. So, if you have a Ph.D. in nutrition science, or at least think you do, then give out your name and number and hourly rate for consultation. Otherwise, try to be supportive or JSTFU.

    It's a common and annoying misconception that one requires a degree or credentials to be able to easily identity bull$hit.

    Like your profile?

    Are you a computer scientist or network engineer? How did you know my profile is bs?

    See? Exactly.
  • Alexandria1213
    Alexandria1213 Posts: 152 Member
    So basically it reads the label for you?

    The app goes into more detail and breaks down the ingredients that you may not understand. It also gives you healthier alternatives. Its more of a tool to help educate you. Makes you really think about what you're eating.

    But nice sarcastic rude quip.
  • _reno_
    _reno_ Posts: 87 Member
    how does it define 'healthy?' because there is no one food that is inherently unhealthy.
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    ^^^ This seems inherently unhealthy ^^^^

    Fooducate is a great app I have been using it for a couple of years

    some other good apps
    * Ismoothrun (with bluetooth heart rate monitor) (syncs to runkeeper)
    * runkeeper (with withings body fat scale
    * sleepcycle (syncs sleep to run keeper)
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    Have it and LOVE IT!! :heart: :heart: Was shocked , some of the "healthy" things I was eating got grades of D from them.

    Like what?

    As I said before, it doesn't put things in context.
  • Bentley2718
    Bentley2718 Posts: 1,689 Member
    What determines if it's healthy or not? Does the app know my calorie and macro goals? Does it track what I've eaten throughout the day to know how the food I'm about to track fits in with all the other food I've eaten?

    This exactly. I'd rather read the labels of my food and decide whether *I* think they are healthy for *me*. A quick look at the amount of sugar in most granola bars is enough to tell you something--unless of course you want to eat a bunch of relatively quickly digested carbs.

    what is considered a decent amout in granola bars

    "Decent amount" is a highly subjective concept. What I consider reasonable, you may not consider reasonable. What is reasonable for my husband to eat after running 5 miles is different from what I would eat after 45min bike ride, etc.. I had three points (1) we all have different activity levels, goals, etc., so a one size fits all approach probably isn't going to fit anyone very well. (2) All the relevant information is on the label, you don't need an ap, you just need to flip the package over. (3) It is better to read labels and think, than it is to just believe what some ap tells you.
  • 2pupsmama
    2pupsmama Posts: 77
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  • Bentley2718
    Bentley2718 Posts: 1,689 Member
    how does it define 'healthy?' because there is no one food that is inherently unhealthy.
    5e75127e132dd772d5690399b691a022.jpg

    ^^^ This seems inherently unhealthy ^^^^

    While I find that imagine downright revolting (I'm not a fan of donuts, and haven't eaten meat in over a decade), assuming (1) that thing isn't laced with something highly toxic, (2) that your overall diet is healthy, and (3) that you do not eat things like that with anything resembling regularity, I have not seen any evidence that eating part, or even all of that is going to do significant damage to your body.

    I'm having a numbering day, clearly.
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    how does it define 'healthy?' because there is no one food that is inherently unhealthy.
    5e75127e132dd772d5690399b691a022.jpg

    ^^^ This seems inherently unhealthy ^^^^

    While I find that imagine downright revolting (I'm not a fan of donuts, and haven't eaten meat in over a decade), assuming (1) that thing isn't laced with something highly toxic, (2) that your overall diet is healthy, and (3) that you do not eat things like that with anything resembling regularity, I have not seen any evidence that eating part, or even all of that is going to do significant damage to your body.

    I'm having a numbering day, clearly.
    Plus, protein, iron and other vitamins and minerals in the beef.
  • tgh1914
    tgh1914 Posts: 1,036 Member
    how does it define 'healthy?' because there is no one food that is inherently unhealthy.
    This ^^^

    Whenever I hear an ad or news story or "expert" claim that something is "healthy" or "unhealthy" in a blanket fashion, they lose total credibility. Healthy is relative. Believe it or not, there are times when what is appropriate is a quick shot of simple carbs. But I'm guessing the app won't know that.
  • zaph0d
    zaph0d Posts: 1,172 Member
    how does it define 'healthy?' because there is no one food that is inherently unhealthy.
    5e75127e132dd772d5690399b691a022.jpg

    ^^^ This seems inherently unhealthy ^^^^

    Fooducate is a great app I have been using it for a couple of years

    some other good apps
    * Ismoothrun (with bluetooth heart rate monitor) (syncs to runkeeper)
    * runkeeper (with withings body fat scale
    * sleepcycle (syncs sleep to run keeper)

    how can you tell that contains synthetic trans fat just from the photo?
  • tsh0ck
    tsh0ck Posts: 1,970 Member
    why is a donut, an egg, some bacon and some beef unhealthy? I might not combine them like that. but say you have an egg and bacon for breakfast, a donut maybe as a mid-morning snack and some ground beef at dinner. doesn't seem all that unhealthy to me. unless, of course, this is what you are living on three meals a day. that's where the amount of ____ food comes in.

    you can still eat ice cream and chocolate and be perfectly healthy.
  • ccburn5
    ccburn5 Posts: 473 Member
    Have it, quit using it, deleted it.
  • cmcollins001
    cmcollins001 Posts: 3,472 Member
    It is my humble opinion that this app is as useful as that app that simulates the user is snorting cocaine.

    I don't need an app to tell me that food either healthy or not healthy. If I can chew it, swallow it, and at some point, poop out the parts I don't use, then it's healthy food.
  • heathersmilez
    heathersmilez Posts: 2,579 Member
    Ok so I searched fooducate in the App Store w/o success. Any tips on searching at it appears several of u have this app therefore it does exist. Any chance this is android only, not Apple?
  • DavPul
    DavPul Posts: 61,406 Member
    So basically it reads the label for you?

    The app goes into more detail and breaks down the ingredients that you may not understand. It also gives you healthier alternatives. Its more of a tool to help educate you. Makes you really think about what you're eating.

    But nice sarcastic rude quip.

    You realize you just gave the definition of reading, right?

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