New app counts calories through photos of food

Would you like to know how many calories you're going to consume when you reach for this cheese burger or slice of the pie? Your iPhone to take a picture. A new application called MealSnap allows users to photograph food and get the number of calories.

"We have heard from members over the years, that calorie counting time consuming and more difficult for some of our users, in the course of time to maintain", the developer said DailyBurn's CEO Andy Smith in a statement.

"We knew that we come with a solution - one that offers people the easiest way possible for them to put what her body they know and understand their daily consumption had to."

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The solution is this: users snap a picture of their meal and within minutes the photo on a MealSnap is database of 500,000 food. The app then sends a warning with a number of calories for the photographed food.

Bacon, eggs and Hashbrowns? You will take between 290 to 436 calories are. Mixed salad with goat cheese? That you be 330, 495 calories costs. You may be better off with Roasted Peppers and toast for 111 to 166 calories.

"The database can quickly create identity of the food, how many calories there are fat, carbohydrates, proteins, vitamins, what would you know" Smith was quoted by Reuters. "Users can share, what they are on Twitter or FourSquare, what eaten to social accountability."

MealSnap can also be a food diary. Once the application is installed, users can browse the photo Protocol and visually have their diet. MealSnap is available for $2.99 on iTunes.

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