Get fast-food facts from your mobile phone
Thursday, March 13, 2008Ignorance may be bliss, but if you have a mobile phone it may no longer be an excuse to indulge in unhealthy eating.
This month, Diet.com launched Nutrition on the Go, a service that lets you check the calories, carbs and fat of items at 1,700 places. Send a text message to 34381 with the name of the restaurant and the item. Results can be shocking: A tuna sandwich on honey wheat bread at Panera has 720 calories, 43 grams of fat and 50 grams of carbs.
The system has some bugs. Type in "Starbucks tall latte," and you get the results for a syrup-flavored latte with soy milk. And though there are 39,000 items in the database, the system drew a blank on several things we requested, such as the Cosi Vegi Muffaletta. Test the service online, visit http://diet.com/mobile.
Washington Post
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