Pregnancy Food Scanner Android App Offers Easy, Safe Food Shopping for Pregnant Women

PHOENIX - May 17, 2015 - PRLog -- Simplify Now, LLC, has announced the launch of their brand new app Pregnancy Food Scanner. The app is now available for Android and is an easy to use tool that helps pregnant women and their support teams shop for safe foods for themselves and their growing babies. While the app is not a substitute for medical advice, Pregnancy Food Scanner can help expectant mothers follow their doctor’s recommendations while having the peace of mind of knowing more about the foods they eat.

The Android device’s camera scans the barcode on the food product in question and instantly checks to see if it contains undesirable ingredients. “The real magic of this app is that it empowers expectant parents to make their own choices for what ingredients they do and do not want in their bodies. The app can easily be configured with their physician's advice, food allergies, and ingredients that parents aren’t comfortable eating,” said Tim Mackenzie, the lead developer at Simplify Now, LLC. With frequently changing guidelines, doctors regularly give expectant mothers a list of foods and ingredients to avoid, and Pregnancy Food Scanner works seamlessly to help find the right foods and stay healthy.

Using data provided by Food Essentials, a partner of the FDA, Pregnancy Food Scanner knows what ingredients are in a food product without having to read the ingredients list. This capability allows the app to match against undesirable ingredients so it can highlight them and provide a warning. Since it remembers previous choices, it can provide an easy reminder of products that have already been reviewed and decided upon. The new app is a powerful tool for choosing better foods for expectant mothers and their unborn babies, and even young infants and children.

Pregnancy Food Scanner is currently available exclusively in the United States due to available food product data and is free to download from Google Play at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pregnancyfoodscanner.

More information about Pregnancy Food Scanner is available at http://PregnancyFoodScanner.com.