HarvestMark More than 400 companies and 3,000 farms around the world useHarvestMark, a platform to trace where food comes from. You can pick a food and trace where, how, and when it was grown. If the food in the participating supermarket chain has the HarvestMark logo, just scan it to find out the story of that particular item. It can be found on Driscoll’s berries, chicken from Petaluma Poultry, Kroger brands, and many others.
Farmstand Farmstand shows you seasonal, local food by mapping farms and farmers' markets. You use the app to quickly find the farmers' markets around you, and what's happening at them, or what produce people really like. It shows directions, hours of operation, and photos of over 8,700 farmers' markets around the world
Ratatouille It's very new and only available for iPhone so far, but Ratatouille is an app to reduce food waste. It allows people in the same geographic area to post their leftover perishables. Upload a photo of your food, write a description, and arrange a pick-up spot.
Fooducate Fooducate was created to help you understand food labels and ingredient lists, which are often confusing. The app addresses marketing hype and health claims for all types of food products, showing the things that companies don't want you to see: high fructose corn syrup, excessive sugar, trans fats, and more. All you have to do is scan a product you find.
Instacart Download this app to have groceries from Whole Foods and Costco delivered within an hour. The first delivery is free, and after that it is $3.99. Deliveries run from 9 a.m. to midnight every day. Personal shoppers deliver the groceries, and you're encouraged to tip them.
Look & Cook Look & Cook was created by Israeli startup Kinetic Art. It combines step-by-step instructions with beautiful photographs. It tells you which ingredients and what appliances and utensils you will need. You can also purchase kitchen gadgets within the app. Search for recipes for a specific event or diet.
Wild Edibles Wild Edibles allows you to identify wild plants and flowers that you can harvest for consumption. Use a glossary of images and descriptions to find out what it is and then read about how to harvest and cook it the proper way. There's 165 edible plants, 52 minor look-alikes, and 162 recipes using roots, nuts, fruits, and plants.
Feedie Feedie is an app designed by The Lunchbox Fund, which puts our society's passion for taking and sharing food photos to good use. You sign up via Facebook or Twitter, then visit a participating restaurant. When you use Feedie to take a photo and post it on social media, that restaurant donates money to The LunchBox Fund, a non-profit organization that provides daily meals to schoolchildren in South Africa.
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