7. Food and Nutrition Apps
Fooducate
Make grocery shopping fun using fooducate. Download the app, scan the bar codes of the product you wish to purchase and get details on how healthy the product is. It also tracks your sleep, mood and hunger levels. Fooducate analyzes all of this data and provides tips and help you meet your fitness goals.
Carrot Fit
This app is made to help your achieve your goals than to please you! A judgmental weight tracker, dishes out harsh criticisms to those who want loose those extra pounds. With strong sarcasm and motivational talks, users might take the criticism personally and shed those pounds. CarrotFit promises that losing weight will ‘suck so much less.
ShopWell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mWBP2G2fCM
ShopWell is all about personalization, enter in your information height, weight, age and allergies. It will tell you how healthy your food consumption (calorie count) is, the closer to 100, the better it is. It will make recommendations on a diet plan.
SideChef
So are up to try new healthy recipes? The app provides you step-by-step guide tot he recipe by using voice commands. If it is going too fast, you can ask SideChef to repeat directions without even having to touch your phone with those engaged hands.
Lose It!
The app is designed for helping you count your calorie intake and helps you keep track of your exercises. It helps you lose weight especially if you eat name-brand American foods- Lose It, which has been around for a few years now. It has a huge community of supportive people that help you stick to your fitness goals. The app is also compatible with a lot of other fitness devices and apps and includes Nike+ Fuel Band, Fitbit devices, Runkeeper, MapMyFitness and Jawbone UP. So you can now import your calorie intake and balance it easily against your calorie expenditure.
Thrive Market
Either you compromise on food or money as buying healthy food has never been easier and cheaper. Thrive Market is your place for natural and organic products. You can pay a yearly fee of $59.95 and have access to amazing deals on everything from cooking oil to chips. The app makes it easier to shop for groceries everything in your own sweet time, and then Thrive delivers your order.
Rise
It’s probably the few apps with honest results. It connects you with a nutritionist and you can send them photos of the food you eat everyday. Based on your food consumption and goals of losing weight, becoming fit, feeling energized etc the nutritionist will help you with your diet plan and food intakes. Isn’t this a better and cheaper plan than booking an appointment with a dietitian?
Ingredient1
When you have dietary restrictions, it’s so much of a pain to keep checking the ingredients for every product at the grocery store. That’s where Ingredient1’s FoodID steps in the picture. Answer a list of questions about your restrictive diet and Ingredient1 will give you hundreds of options that fit in your criteria. To make it more easy it also finds nearby stores where you can find these items.
Download for iOS
Healthy Out
Enjoy a night out without the guilt? Healthy Out app gives you nutritional values and healthy options of your favorite dishes at your favorite restaurant. Put in your restaurant, specify your nutritional needs be fat free, gluten free, heart healthy, or a specific diet. This app is helpful in suggesting modifications to your food and breaks down the calories, carbs, fat.
Download for iOS
Download for Android
Zipongo
It can sometimes be really expensive to eat healthy and stay fit. This app is perfect for those are wanting to eat healthy on limited budget. It gives alerts the members with digital coupons and grocery items that are on sale. The will help you maintain your diet and your wallet on track.
Download for Android
MyFitnessPal
This fitness app has a data of around 6 million foods making it easy to keep track of your food intake. This app offers the best recommendations for any kind of fitness goals, be it loosing weight, increase muscles or just be fit.
Lifesum
Is it like a huge task to control your food cravings? All you have to do is pick your goal- lose weight, bulk up or eat more and now it’s Lifesum’s responsibility to remind you and ensure that you follow the simple tasks to reach your goal. Use the feedback and graphics to improve your health quotient.
DietBet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmnbTlWUPX8
This app has some real motivation for you! You have to enter into a challenge where you get into a bet for ($25-$25 per bet) with a user to loose weight- either 4% of your weight in four weeks or 10% of their weight in six months. Dietbet will monitor your results. This sound’s interesting, I’m up for a challenge, are you?
Noom Coach
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDhsyI0qeWY
From counting your calories to giving a spotlight approach- Noom Coach is the best when it comes to monitoring calorie intake. To make it simpler the app labels healthy food – green is good, red is not so great. To keep yourself motivated you can engage into challenges with other users and meet your health goals.
