The Netherlands Nutrition Center turns your iPhone into a handy food scanner with the Kies Ik Healthy? App. Point your camera at a barcode in the supermarket and you will immediately see which product is the healthiest.
Nutrition Center launches Kies Ik Healthy?
At the start of the new year, many people want to eat healthier, something the Ministry of Health is happy to encourage. Reading labels in the supermarket is often too clumsy or takes too much effort, especially if you are looking for specific nutritional values.
That is why the Kies Ik Healthy? App is very accessible: you can choose from a product scanner, which uses your iPhone’s camera to register the barcode, or a search function that allows you to browse through the entire range.
As soon as you start the app, you create a profile in two steps. Here you indicate which nutritional values ​​you want to pay particular attention to. This way you indicate exactly what is important to you: information about proteins, sugars, fats or salt, for example. Then you indicate at which supermarket you do your shopping. With this information, the app knows exactly which house brands should be displayed.
Accessible healthy eating
Each product in the app has an extensive page, where you can view the nutritional value, energy, sugars, salt and more. The app also indicates whether it fits in the disk of five. If not, you can view a healthier alternative at the touch of a button. For example, the app encourages you to pass up unhealthy products for a healthier variety.
The app still seems to have some flaws when we look at the reviews in the App Store. Several users report problems with the start-up, although we did not experience this during testing.
Health on iPhone
This month we will extensively discuss the theme of health on iPhoned. In January we will look at how you can live healthier with the iPhone and Apple Watch. If you want to kick off your good intentions well, you can keep an eye on iPhoned this month. You can of course do that via your browser, but it is a lot easier with our iPhoned app or newsletter.