Calorie Counts To Your Mobile Phone? :

Two new services allow nutrition information to be accessed from your mobile phone.

Diet Detective Calories on Demand
The Diet Detective service allows users to email the name of a food (to calories@dietdetective.com) - from a mobile phone - and immediately receive some basic nutritional information. Also - the amount of minutes required to burn off the calories is sent. Note that the service is currently in beta.

The Diet Detective currently as a calorie "handbook" available ( see review here ).

Here are the results for a query of "Dark Chocolate". The name of the food should be placed in the subject line.

How accurate this is, I cannot vouch for - although it seems to be returning the results for Hershey's Kisses?

NOTE: The service is currently in beta, and will shortly be turned into a TXTing service (much more accessible that using email from a mobile phone).

CalorieKing Mobile
CalorieKing is a website that offers access to a free food database containing 50,000 items. They also sell software for diet tracking.

Recently they a mobile version of the food database site. It's accessible at mobile.calorieking.com , and allows a web-enabled mobile to retrieve nutrition information for any food.

For paid members of Calorie King, the service also allows users to access their own diet tracking information.

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