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Tuesday, 12 April 2011 19:13

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Worried about how many calories you are going to consume in that slice of pizza, chocolate cake or bag of chips? A new iPhone application that takes a picture of the meal with the phone, and gives a calorie read-out almost instantly, may help.

The MealSnap app was developed by DailyBurn, a fitness social network that has created several other fitness and diet-related iPhone applications.

Within minutes of taking a picture of a meal and matching it to a database of some 500,000 food items, the app sends users an alert with a range of calories for the meal that was photographed.

Andy Smith, chief executive at DailyBurn, said: 'The database can quickly help identity the food, how many calories there are, proteins, fat, carbs, vitamins, whatever you may want to know.

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