Mobile Meal Minder

By Warren Rojas

Chances are, you’ve used your cell phone to make dinner reservations, order takeout or coordinate impromptu cocktail parties. Now, you can use it tally up the consequences of all those glorious indiscretions.

The diet watchdogs over at CalorieKing have made their online food database more mobile-friendly, allowing anyone to search for free the nutritional makeup of almost 60,000 consumables found at your local grocery store, a favorite restaurant or just lying around your pantry.

“You’ve got your national food chains … and it goes into generic foods like apples and bananas,” a CK spokesman said of the exhaustive calorie cruncher, adding that in-house researchers update nearly 15,000 foods per month and cover almost 300 nationwide eateries (ranging from fast-food mainstays like Burger King to casual dining destinations like California Pizza Kitchen).

A search of recently added items turned up a grab bag of familiar snacks, including: Haagen-Dazs Reserve ice cream, Silk soymilk, Minute Maid juice blends, Freschetta pizzas, Cascadian Farm organic sherbet, Nestle Treasures truffles, McDonald’s McSkillet burrito and Gatorade sports drinks.

Meanwhile, CalorieKing subscribers ($55 per year or $7 per month for an interactive weight-loss program) can use the mobile site to log items they might eat on the fly directly into their online diary.

To try CalorieKing Mobile for yourself, visit: www.calorieking.com/mobile.

(May 2008)

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