Food Guide app for iPhone and iPad

4.8 ( 208 ratings )

Lifestyle Food & Drink
Developer: ditter.projektagentur GmbH

3.99 USD

Current version: 3.0, last update: 5 years ago
First release : 20 Oct 2009
App size: 90.06 Mb

The Food Guide is your culinary adviser in an app. The program contains basic information for 2,000 foods and culinary specialties – and assists with translation when on vacation abroad. In order to know what’s behind a “Lubina” on a Spanish menu, all you need is to whip out your iPhone.

FOOD ENCYCLOPEDIA AND SHOPPING ASSISTANCE
For every entry, the App provides at least one photo, evaluates culinary quality and indicates the scientific name, if applicable. In the description, the most important and relevant culinary information is summarized all in one place, and is followed by hints to uses in cuisine and its processing and preparation – without the App actually intending to be a cookbook.

TRANSLATION ASSISTANCE ABROAD
Travelers mostly enjoy that all the food names are simultaneously given in five languages – English, French, German, Spanish and Italian. Thus, it is possible to translate menus abroad, to ask about a specific fish on a Spanish market or to look up whether Banon cheese from the cheese menu in a restaurant is made with raw milk or not.

SEARCH BY KEYWORD OR CHAPTER
The Food Guide can be perused by individual ingredients, but is also organized into 21 categories such as “Fish”, “Vegetables and Legumes”, “Herbs and Seasonings”, “Cheese”, “Seafood” and “Sausages and Ham”, to name just a few.

FAVORITES FUNCTION
Interesting findings can be transferred into an App-specific favorites list with just the touch of a finger. That way, they can quickly be found again at any time.

RUNS OFFLINE
It is not necessary to have an Internet or a telephone connection to run the App. You will always have full access to all of the information, regardless of whether you find yourself on the beach on the Bahamas, in a Spanish mountain village or in a delicatessen in Paris.

Food Guide Features:
• Extremely attractive, easy to use interface
• Multilingual dictionary with 2,000 food products and ingredients
• Each entry accompanied by at least one highres picture of the product
• More than 2,500 high quality pictures
• Scientific names included in descriptions
• Offers product knowledge and consumer information
• App has 21 comprehensive chapters
• Shows 1-5 star rating of enjoyment level
• Versatile search functions
• ‘Favorites’ feature lets you bookmark products that you want to return to

Pros and cons of Food Guide app for iPhone and iPad

Food Guide app good for

This Food Guide is perfect for anyone who is really into food, culinary student/ learning about it or is in the food service industry. Its broken up into chapters and each definition is paired with its name in other foreign languages. This guide is very eurocentric in that it lacks definitions for regional U.S. foods. Otherwise than that, its pretty nice.

I do live in America and a lot of the food in this app is unused in most homes. In restaurants though, it may help quite a lot. I have seen about 80% of these foods in America so you wont be too confused. The thing I dont like is it uses the metric system which means nothing to me. I hope an update will add the option for Americans.

This is a great app, particularly useful for foreigners living abroad (as I am). Besides an obvious glitch in the favorites tab (its in German, even when English is selected), I would add a fifth star if any or all of the followings come in future versions: 1. Ability to create shopping lists. 2. Ability to add foods. 3. A better looking icon. Keep up the good work!

for all the new entries in version 2.0 and for the highres pictures in landscape modus! Great work - each foodie should have this app.

Some bad moments

For a very large 153MB apps, I was expecting a whole lot more. I purchased this apps to have around the kitchen whenever I would have wanted information about a certain produce and its good and bad nutrients. Instead, they just tell you that a tomato can be green, red or brown and that we eat the flesh and skin .... but nothing on its nutrients. I will uninstall that apps and ask for refund

I thought $3.99 was a little pricey once I started using this app. I looked up several food items that are popular but often confusing and most of those were not found (ie: endive, scallions, tripe, goat cheese, barbacoa). If these things are listed, I couldnt find them. Plus, there seems to be no wiggle room on spelling. If you cant spell mackerel you might not find it. Good idea but keep going. I need more for my $3.99.

Even after I called support team to help me with this App it still didnt work.

Worthless app. Confusing and difficult to use. Wasted my money.

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