New app calculates calories through photos of food

New app calculates calories through photos of food
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Summary Worried about how many calories you are going to consume in your meal? a new iphone may help.

After taking a picture of the meal with the phone, the app gives a calorie read-out almost instantly.The app, called MealSnap, was developed by DailyBurn, a fitness social network that has created several other fitness and diet-related iPhone applications.Within minutes of taking a picture of a meal and matching it to a database of some 500,000 food items, the app sends users an alert with a range of calories for the meal that was photographed.
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