Point, Click, and Lose Weight on the Iphone

I think some women would agree that tracking your diet and caloric-intake is a key part of any good nutrition plan. Electronic calorie counters and food diaries have been around for years, and there is a strong market for these types of applications on mobile phone platforms too. Today, DailyBurn (formerly known as Gyminee) is releasing a new kind of food journal for the iPhone: FoodScanner.

As the title suggests, FoodScanner uses the iPhone’s built-in camera to scan barcodes of food items. Using DailyBurn’s database over 200,000 food products, you can scan what you eat (or what you are thinking about eating) and get the nutritional information and your daily calorie count. If the item you are eating doesn’t have a barcode or if it isn’t in DailyBurn’s database, you can search for the product and select it, or add new foods to the database and add photos and UPC codes.