Cool blog, even cooler app

Fooducate.com's tagline is "eat a bit better." In the daily fooducate.com blog, you'll learn all kinds of cool stuff from the world of healthy (and not so healthy) eating. The website is run by a dad named Hemi Weingarten who lives in San Francisco. As his kids grew he became increasingly bewildered by the grocery store and the plethora of health claims that accompanied what looked to be unhealthy products. (Fantastic amounts of fiber in Froot Loops, anyone?)

"So I decided to do something about it. I began to educate myself by voraciously reading books and web articles about food systems, nutrition, and food preparation. At some point I decided that I need to share this information with other people, so that they too will be able to make better choices. And thus Fooducate was born.

In this blog, published daily (more or less), you’ll find tips and tricks to help make you a better shopper of nutritious food. Topics include nutrition fact labels, hard to pronounce ingredient names, “health claims,” and other marketing tricks to watch out for at the supermarket.
Fooducate has absolutely no relationship with the food, drug, diet or supplement industries.
Nor does Fooducate sell, peddle, distribute or otherwise offer magic pills, secret celebrity diets, and/or exotic supplements.
We’re here to help you."

And help it does! Fooducate has an absolutely awesome app for iPhones that lets you scan a barcode of a product in the grocery store, see what's really inside nutritionally speaking, and then offers both a grade and suggestions for healthier options (if available). It is super, super cool.

 

Check out both the blog and the app...they are both insightful and useful.

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