You don't accept to be Jamie Oliver to apperceive that a lot of aliment contains ailing capacity but assertive bodies charge to apperceive absolutely what is in their food, and whether or not it fits in with their religious or comestible requirements. App developer Faizal Mohammed has recognised this charge and is creating a array of apps which browse capacity labels and automatically actuate the cachet of aliment additives.
The Halal Scanner and Vegetarian Scanner app assignment in absolutely the aforementioned way. You booty a account of an capacity label, the app again recognises the additives and cross-references them adjoin a database. The camera-based arrangement alone works with the iPhone 3GS as you charge auto-focus to booty a acceptable attempt but you can still use the database to manually analysis additives on the iPhone 2G and 3G, and the iPod Touch.
According to Faizal, the apps alone browse additives because it's beneath complicated than scanning the absolute characterization but he recognises that bodies will appetite to analysis added ingredients, so he wants to add them to the apps' searchable databases. Faizal is additionally agog to actualize agnate apps for added comestible needs, such as bodies with allergies. Both apps amount £1.19 [Halal scanner iTunes link] [Vegetarian scanner iTunes link].
Description: Halal and vegetarian scanner apps
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