Calorie Counts To Your Mobile Phone?
Two new services allow nutrition information to be accessed from your mobile phone.
Diet Detective Calories on Demand
The Diet Detective service allows users to email the name of a food (to calories@dietdetective.com) - from a mobile phone - and immediately receive some basic nutritional information. Also - the amount of minutes required to burn off the calories is sent. Note that the service is currently in beta.
The Diet Detective currently as a calorie "handbook" available (see review here).
Here are the results for a query of "Dark Chocolate". The name of the food should be placed in the subject line.
Dark Chocolate Srv:9 Kisses
CAL230 CARB25 FAT13
Walk59 Run24 Bike33
How accurate this is, I cannot vouch for - although it seems to be returning the results for Hershey's Kisses?
NOTE: The service is currently in beta, and will shortly be turned into a TXTing service (much more accessible that using email from a mobile phone).
CalorieKing Mobile
CalorieKing is a website that offers access to a free food database containing 50,000 items. They also sell software for diet tracking.
Recently they a mobile version of the food database site. It's accessible at mobile.calorieking.com, and allows a web-enabled mobile to retrieve nutrition information for any food.
For paid members of Calorie King, the service also allows users to access their own diet tracking information.
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Love, Love Love the idea of saying how many minutes, doing various exercises it would take to burn off. How can we get more listings like that of different foods, and how long it will take to burn off. Maybe a calendar?
ReplyI have found that Gimme20.com has a great mobile site. This is more focused on working out but goes hand in hand with calorie counting.
ReplyI think it would be awesome if mobile phones had scanners. Scan in the UPC of what you eat and it'll tally it for you.
I know this is a far out idea, but it would be neat. Restaurants are being required to display health information about their meals anyway. I don't know what it would take but it would really be cool if they had to display a barcode on their receipts that you could scan in with the phone. The barcode would correlate to what menu items you choose and it would help you tally your daily calorie count.
ReplyThere is no need for this. We have truly lost our minds.
ReplyYou can go to the diet detective website www.DietDetective.com and there is a calculator to figure out how many mintues it will take to burn the foods you just ate -- many exercise choices-- many foods -- check it out.
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