Food Intolerances App Helps Manage Restricted Diets
Baliza GmbH’s app Food Intolerances is a tool to help everyone obliged to adhere to a restricted diet because of food intolerances or allergies. Typical applications are: histamine intolerance, mastocytosis, fructose malabsorption, sorbitol intolerance, aspirin intolerance, gluten sensitivity, lactose intolerance or a low sugar diet.
More and more people nowadays suffer from food intolerances. Those affected often find they are completely overwhelmed by the diagnosis and are not aware of what foods they can or should still eat. The universal app ‘Food Intolerances’, developed for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, assesses the most important and basic foods in terms of their tolerance.
When eating becomes an ordeal, it is often the result of food intolerance. This doesn’t always necessarily have to be an allergy. Rather it can also be due to natural components of the food, such as histamine, fructose or lactose, among others. These trigger the serious symptoms, similar to those seen in allergy sufferers, that afflict people with food intolerances. These range from indigestion to irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), eczema and other skin complaints to asthma attacks. According to medical experts, between ten and 20 % of the population are believed to suffer from a form of food intolerance. The situation becomes even more critical when multiple food intolerances are involved. What foods can a person still eat then?
The app ‘Food Intolerances’ provides a practical solution to this problem. It recognises over 700 different foods used in everyday life and is therefore a helpful guide when shopping. With the app you can find out if certain products contain histamine, fructose including fructans and other problematic fibers, sucrose, sorbitol, lactose or salicylates, and in what amount. This makes it easier to deal with the diagnosis you may have received, if you do indeed suffer from histamine intolerance, fructose malabsorption, lactose intolerance or salicylate intolerance, among others. The app can also be used to search for and filter foods that contain gluten, milk and eggs.
“With this app, users can set how seriously they are affected by every type of food intolerance,” says Baliza GmbH CEO Tanja Credner. “A special filter function then simply excludes those foods containing substances to which the person is intolerant. In this way, shopping is made far easier and, with our integrated shopping list, it can even be planned in advance. It’s also easy to add a comment on any food item and to rate them according to your personal tolerance.”
It is also possible to upgrade your app to include additional filters by purchasing the in-app upgrade. These filter the food database according to fish, soy, wheat, yeast, sulfites, night shades, pork, beef and/or meat in general. Thus vegetarians, for example, can filter out all foods that contain meat. Once you have purchased the in-app upgrade, the app can also be used to indicates possible cross allergies in foods, such as birch, pollen, mugwort pollen, latex, grass pollen, legumes, dust mites and tree nuts.
An additional in-app feature allows you to acquire information on a food’s nutritional information. This includes general information such as energy value and protein amount, but also all essential vitamins, minerals and trace elements.
Food Intolerances contains about 700 foods that are commented and rated in view of the following subjects:
– Carbohydrate malabsorptions
• Fructose malabsorption
• Fructose/glucose ratio
• Content of sugar (sucrose)
• Sorbitol and other sugar alcohols
• Lactose intolerance
• Problematic fibers (i.e. fructans, galactans)
• Comments and rating of tolerance
– Histamine intolerance / Mastocytosis
• Histamine content of foods
• Biogenic amines (e.g. tyramine)
• Histamine liberators and DAO inhibitors
• Problematic drugs
• Food additives
• Comments and rating of tolerance
– Aspirin/Salicylate intolerance
• Salicylate content
• Problematic food additives
• Comments and rating of tolerance
– Other intolerances and allergies
• Indication whether a food contains gluten, milk protein or egg*
• Comments and rating for gluten intolerance*
– More features
• Filter function for selecting suitable foods
• Filter for histamine, fructose, sorbitol, lactose, salicylate, gluten, milk protein and egg
• Possibility to add own comments, e.g. to document individual allergies
• Adjustment of the rating of foods
• Integrated shopping list for planning your purchases
• Direct link to Wikipedia articles for all products
• No internet connection required
• Uncheck unnecessary infos
• Thumbnails for most foods
– Nutrition facts (in-app purchase)
• General nutrition facts
• Minerals and micronutrients
• Vitamins
• Recommended daily intake
• Glycemic index and glycemic load
• Sort foods by nutrition values (works in combination with the filter function)
– Allergy and filter pack (in-app purchase)
• Additional filters for soy, fish, pork, beef, meat, sulfites, baker’s yeast, wheat and nightshades
• Extended filter function
• Display possible cross reactivity foods for allergy to birch, grass pollen, nightshades, mugwort, legumes, latex, dust mites and tree nuts
* This app doesn’t rate brand specific products but foods and products categories in general. It offers you all the information you need to deal with your intolerance. NThe app does not replace medical care and should not be used for diagnostic purposes. While the information provided here has been compiled to the best knowledge of the author, mistakes happen, since it is a complex matter, which depends closely on the individual person. We are constantly working to improve the app, but information may be wrong and may even contain harmful recommendations. The Baliza GmbH disclaims any liability as a developer of this app for the accuracy, completeness and timeliness of the information and any resulting damages, consequential damages and other disadvantages. The assertion of claims of any kind is excluded.
New in Version 3.4:
• The app now supports iPhone 6 and 6 Plus. The topic “histamine intolerance” has been updated with more in-depth comments and revised the other categories as well. Several details have been improved or fixed.
• The nutrition facts expansion now allows you to sort nutrients in ascending or descending order.
System Requirements and price:
‘Food Intolerances’ 3.1 (26.6 MB) is a universal app for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad and is available in the Health and Fitness category of the iTunes App Store. The app costs $5.99. You can upgrade to add the in-app packages for $1.99 each.
Homepage:
http://www.baliza.de/en/
Product information:
http://www.baliza.de/en/apps/histamine.html
iTunes Appstore:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/food-intolerances/id419098758