FoodEssentials Data Overview

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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18 Apps to help with Grocery Shopping

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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