4 Food Apps You Need to Download ASAP

Joanne Camas



We never rest, you know. We're constantly adding recipes to our database, researching and writing primers and guides, and generally keeping up with new digital developments related to food and drink.

Here, four destinations we've enjoyed this week:

The Guardian has a new widget called Roll Your Vice, designed to show how much you can save by skipping that expensive morning coffee or bringing your lunch to work. You select a category (or enter your own), add the price, and hit the button to find out how much that change would net you in savings each year. Depressing or cool, depending on your willpower.

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You might want to start putting those savings from coffee or lunch into a jar, because in November you'll be introduced to Prep Pad, a cool new kitchen scale. "The user specifies what foodstuff/liquid they are weighing in the app, either by manually selecting it within the app, or scanning a product barcode, or there's also a voice-capture feature," TechCrunch explains. The device then displays protein, carbs, and fats on its screen, as well as the calorie total.

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Healthy eating is also the goal of the greenScans app. The app expands labels on produce to show you who grew the item and where, and what type of farming practices were used. "Connect with your produce in a whole new way," say the app's developers, "using technology to return to old-school values of knowing where your produce comes from and how it was grown."

Last but not least, The World's Weirdest Food Museums is the Telegraph's roundup of specialty culinary collections. Been to the Jell-O Museum in the village of LeRoy, New York, yet? I didn't think so. Check out these weird -- and wonderful -- tributes to all things edible. And Spam.

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