iPhone help for diets. Yes, there's an app for that!

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May 10th, 2010 - Posted by Tasha

If you're tech-savvy and food and/or diet conscious, your life just got easier. The iPhone has multiple apps that will assist you in everything from diet to food shopping. These apps can be a big help and time saver in the battle to eat healthy and lose weight.

Too busy to keep track of what you're eating all day long? Foodscanner is a nifty app that lets you use your iPhone to scan the barcodes on the food you eat. Once the item is scanned, Foodscanner will track the the foods you eat throughout the day and display the calorie count and nutritional information. If an item doesn't have a barcode, you can manually type in the name of the food (ie, apple) and it will add it, count it and display it's information.

If you're headed to the supermarket, Grocery IQ can help. With Grocery IQ you can easily create grocery lists by taking a picture of the barcode or typing the food in. Then you can organize your list by store and even get coupons for those items, a nice money saving touch.

Feeling green?  Then Locavore is for you. Locavore will automatically detect where you are and what foods are in season near you, and then let you know what farmer's market you can buy them at.  Time magazine loved this app enough to name it one of the Top 10 Apps of 2009.

If you don't have an iPhone, you don't need to feel left out. Some of our reviewed diet plans, including WeightWatchers, provide access to their online tools for tracking food consumption via your mobile phone.