Corn Allergy Released

Posted by axavier on April 28, 2010 · 5 Comments 

cornDue to popular demand we have recently launched CORN as an allergen on the FoodEssentials Scanner.  It took about a week for our research team to go through the 35,000+ ingredients in our database to attach the corn property to all those relevant ingredients.

Dagan, and the research team worked really hard to get this one out there asap.  And so we’re happy to announce that you can now scan food products and be confident that the FoodEssentials Scanner will highlight the ingredients in the product that contain Corn. Read more

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FoodEssentials Scanner Version 2.0 released

Posted by axavier on April 9, 2010 · Leave a Comment 

3 - My IngredientsYou’ve spoken and we’ve listened. On April 6th 2010 version 2.0.0 of the FoodEssentials Scanner was released. Based largely on the feedback we recieved from version 1.0.0 the new releases add some great functionality and robustnes to the FoodEssentials Scanner. Below is an outline of the major developments: Read more

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FoodEssentials Data Overview

Posted by axavier on March 30, 2010 · Leave a Comment 

dataWe’ve had a fair few questions about our data scans so I thought i’d address it in a quick post.  The questions and comments generally fall in to 3 categories.  The scope of the data, the accuracy of the data, and the geographic limitations of the data.

Data Scope:

We presently have a base database of 160k commercially available products and are continually working to increase the size and relevance of this database. At present, it is largely products available in general supermarkets and therefore will rarely, if ever, return results for products in specialty stores such as WholeFoods or Trader Joe’s.  However, we hope to address this by capturing more data. Read more

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Some Recent Feedback

Posted by axavier on March 29, 2010 · Leave a Comment 

gears-125x125Now that the FoodEssentials Scanner is live we’re beginning to get some feedback.  Most of that feedback has been excellent and we thank everyone for their kind words.  However, as is inevitable we have received some hard constructive criticism from some concerned parents with allergies.  It is always hard to receive harsh critiscism, but a valuable experience non-the-less.  To learn from it I would like to address the  issues raised below. Read more

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FoodEssentials Scanner giveaway #1

Posted by axavier on March 24, 2010 · 2 Comments 

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It’s March Madness:

We’re giving away 5 free access codes to the FoodEssentials Scanner ($4.99 in the iPhone application store) to the first 5 people who RT to this twitter message.

@foodessentials : Free Prize – Free FoodEssentials Scanner access code for the 1st 5 people who RT this  – http://bit.ly/9r22tO

visit us on twitter to ReTweet this message and have a chance to win.

The First 5 people to RT the message on Twitter will win a promo code that will enable them to Redeem the FoodEssentials Scanner Application on their iPhone for FREE. Read more

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18 Apps to help with Grocery Shopping

Posted by axavier on March 18, 2010 · 2 Comments 

iphone pictureIn 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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FoodEssentials Scanner now in private Beta

Posted by axavier on March 9, 2010 · Leave a Comment 

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We here at FoodEssentials have been hard at work with the talented team at Beaver Creek Consulting over the last few weeks to deliver what we hope will be the game changing FoodEssentials Scanner. And we are proud to annouce that we are presently in private Beta mode and looking for testers to help us get it ready for launch.

In the field of Food and Food Label Scanning technology there are heaps of great applications out there.  But we felt that non of them delivered an application that had the potential to be a comprehensive solution.  The problem lies largely in the data.  Most applications only use nutritional data which is very important, but we all know that that’s only part of the food label data. Read more

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