18 Apps to help with Grocery Shopping
In our increasingly busy world we all could do with some tools to help us with Grocery shopping. Whether it is to deliver nutritional and ingredient information for food products, find healthier products, compare prices of products, creat, manage and share shopping lists there is an iPhone app out there that can help.
Following is a list of 18 iPhone applications that can help. We’ve researched and hopefully provided a thorough list of the best tools that can help with grocery shopping.
We tried to do our best to make this a complete list but obviously there are going to be tools that we’ve missed off the list. If you know of any applications out there that are not on this list let us know in the comments section below. Read more
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Research: Orange Juice – What people are looking for
Orange Juice is another popularly compared food category on FoodEssentials.com with 8583 comparisons in the last 6 months – or 1.34% of all comparisons – which if you consider there are over 1000 food categories – is a fair bit of attention.
We have 86 products categorized under the orange juice food category and below we will explore what people are looking for when comparing different orange juice products.
Top 5 Comparisons:
If I had to have at a guess as to the top variable that were compared in the orange juice category I would say probably, calories and sugar. The table below outlines the top food variables that people are choosing when they compare orange juice. Sugar (16%) is in the top 5 with a significant share of the comparisons, however the most compared variable is suprisingly Colors (26.2%) and Preservatives(12.9%) follows up in 3rd place. Read more
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Research: Breakdown of Calorie comparisons
In the last 6 months we have performed an open online survey on FoodEssentials.com to learn about what people care about when looking at and comparing food labels. In total we have recorded the results of over 30,000 unique sessions and have a vast amount of data to analyse. We will be releasing regular summariesof the data over the next few months. In this post we will explore what people are looking at when they have compared products by Calories.
Calories Overview:
Calories was the number one most compared variable at 6.3% of all comparisons (638530). This was closely followed by Gluten (4.6%), Preservative (3.8%), Sodium (3.7%), and Fiber comparisons (3.6%). As can be seen by just these results, Calories was significantly more popular a comparison than the others – and this comes by no surprise. Read more
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Research: Most Popular Aisles and Food Categories by Food Comparisons
Following on from the last post in this series of FoodEssentials Research posts, we will further explore what people are comparing on FoodEssentials by looking at the aisles and food categories. All food labels in the database are categorized under an Aisle / Shelf / Food Category system that helps one to locate the products more easily, such as Cereal & Breakfast Foods / Cereal / Bran Cereal. In this post we will look at which aisles and food categories have received the most comparisons in 2009 so far.
Aisles by Food Comparison
The graph below shows the top 10 aisles by food comparison. Aisles are the broadest type of food category and can best be understood by thinking of the aisles in a supermarket. The results show the most popular aisles by the number of food comparisons undertaken on FoodEssentials.com. Read more
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