15 iPhone Apps For Food Lovers
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If you’re a food lover and you’ve got an iPhone to boot, you’ll be delighted by the many iPhone apps designed to gastronomically delight the foodie. We don’t have an exact count of just how many food apps are there, but here are 12 fantastic ones that you should try and get.
1. Seafood Watch
Want to know which are the best or worst choices you can ever make when it comes to seafood? Get this app; it also helps you locate or recommend “ocean-friendly” seafood by location. You can share your thoughts, food pics and opinions with other users. This app has geolocation social gaming features, similar to Foursquare
2. Foodspotting
This app helps you locate the best restaurants based on your location. The app allows users to share opinions and pictures of food, check in with restaurants and win badges and points. This app has geolocation social gaming features, similar to Foursquare.
3. Zagat’s App
Zagat’s app uses augmented reality features to view ratings of nearby restaurants. What this does is you focus your iPhone on a restaurant and the restaurant’s data’s appears superimposed over your camera’s live image.
4. Social Grapes
Make lists of your favorite wines and share them with your friends. View their wine lists and compare your tastes and recommendations when it comes to wine. Plus, you can get to know where to buy great wines at good prices and how to store wine and so on.
5. Urbanspoon App
Use this app to check out local restaurant reviews; just specify the location, food type and the price you’re willing to pay. Shake the phone to refresh data (iPhone feature, real cute) and get the latest updated info.
6. James Martin’s Food Simplicity App
This app provides you a series of video walkthroughs which demonstrate various ways to cook the same meal. You can decide on the simplest or the most complex way to cook a dish depending on your timelines and patience level. You will also benefit from quite a few recipes as well.
7. Good Food Healthy App
This app provides you with over 150 recipes, covering breakfast, lunch, starters, and dinner courses and so on. It’s exactly what you need when you’re trying to put together an intricate multi-course meal. Recipes are neatly categorized based on ingredients, quantity and calorie count.
8. Fast Food Calorie Counter
If you are particular about your caloric intake and obsess about how many calories any food item consists, this app is for you. It gives you the exact nutritional and calorific value of any fast food meal.
9. Veg Out App
Use this app to search for the nearest vegetarian, vegetarian-friendly or fully vegan eateries where you are. This app uses Google Maps, which means you will get the best veg places for any location.
10. Chinese Food In Minutes
This app gives you a great training course in Chinese cooking from Ching-He Haung, the Chinese food master. Haung provides videos demonstrating step-by-step instructions to teach you ways to make tasty, healthy Chinese recipes.
11. Dinner Spinner
This free app comes to you from AllRecipes.com; it has thousands of recipes including desserts. Anytime you’re stuck for ideas for dinner, all you do is check for specific recipes or meals on this app. Best of all, you can specify how much time you’re willing to spend, and the app will give you the recipes, the ingredients and the time to prepare.
12. Epicurious Recipes and Shopping List
Here’s an app that not only stocks thousands of recipes (try 30,000), but also provides a detailed shopping list of ingredients for each recipe! For the not-so-avid cook, this app is a dream-come-true. Just take your iPhone shopping with you and pick up all the ingredients as listed and cook the recipe as instructed.
13. Open Table
If you live in the US, UK or Canada, you know what it’s like to get a table at a restaurant. Over 17,000 US, UK and Canadian restaurants have registered on this app. Use this app to look up restaurants based on nearness, location, specific city, and cuisine or price range. When you zone in on the place you want, just reserve your table via the app.
14. Fooducate App
For the health nut and the organic food freak, it doesn’t get better than this. Grab any food item off the shelf and scan its barcode through this app. Voila! You’ll immediately know how much added sugar, additional sodium and monounsaturated oils are used! The app contains over 200,000 bar codes so far.
15. Jamie’s Recipes
Jamie is a charismatic celebrity chef whose non-stop imagination helps him create many ways to cook the same meal. This app gives you the dish summary, the recipe, ingredients list and detailed cooking steps. With 100s of easy to cook and innovative recipes, you’ll stop ordering takeout.
This article is written by Ross Cowan. Ross is a foodaholic and fitness freak. For earning money she helps online businesses in improving ecommerce conversion rate and designing landing page templates that can be used for high conversion rate.