Produce Guide-Fruits, Vegetables, Flashcards and Nutrition app for iPhone and iPad

4.2 ( 9692 ratings )

Reference Education
Developer: Shroomies

1.99 USD

Current version: 1.5, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 16 Feb 2009
App size: 26.21 Mb

Produce Guide will take the guesswork out of buying delicious produce that is in season, will educate about the nutritional information of the produce, and so much more! Fruit that is in season is generally less expensive, more available and more delicious.

Produce Guide will also give you hints on how to pick produce, educate on how to properly store your produce, will track when you have purchased items, and how long they will stay fresh. Plus, you will have your own personal log of the exact date when you purchased your produce items and the date when you should consider discarding items.

Features:
-189 different vegetables and fruit, each with gorgeous color pictures
-Descriptions of the fruit and vegetables with instructions on how to pick produce
-Nutritional information for 189 fruits and vegetables listed
-Ability to look up a list of what’s in season for the time of year interested in
-Instructions on if you should refrigerate and how to store your produce
-Suggestions for how long you should keep each item with a log of when you’ve purchased the item and when you should discard the item
-189 different flashcards of fruits/vegetables
-Descriptions of how to utilize each fruit (for example: use this apple for baking and this apple for eating, etc)

This app is also a great educational tool if you want to learn about new produce that you may not be familiar with. Try our useful flashcard mode to learn 189 different fruits and vegetables with beautiful photographs!

Most of the seasons are estimated for the United States and will vary from state to state. When you look up whats in season for the fall for example it is only an estimate and is not guaranteed to be in stock at your grocery store. We have tried to simplify things to give you ideas and start thinking about seasonality. This application and has included many other features beyond seasonality like nutritional information, descriptions of produce, shows how to pick produce and has beautiful pictures unlike many other applications!

Pros and cons of Produce Guide-Fruits, Vegetables, Flashcards and Nutrition app for iPhone and iPad

Produce Guide-Fruits, Vegetables, Flashcards and Nutrition app good for

:) But the addition of "Benefits" or "Medicinal uses" as well as "Too much consumption consequences" for each fruit or vegetable would make this application a total useful treat & encourage people to use it even more to learn and to choose the right vegetables/fruits. Also I couldnt find "Zucchini" I am not sure if it is included in some category somewhere... :S ... a "search engine" added to the app would be helpful for that! Please include such information in future updates. Overall the application is cool, I recommend it for anyone interested in learning a little about the various fruits and vegetables or for those who get stuck on recipe books trying to find out what certain ingredient name actually is. Also cool to know whats in season & whats not. Developpers include what I mentioned into your app and it will be unbeatable. Good luck.

Up till now there are only 2 of these guides in App Store and this one seems to have beat the competition hands down already, i agree with the earlier post about a search function which could be a good idea as the database grows over the years. btw i found out from the developer that zucchini is under the "squash" category.

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This app is such a great deal when you consider all the wonderful features! I love being able to keep track of when Ive purchased my produce, learning how long it will keep, and knowing where to store my produce. I will try to buy produce that is in season now that I know when all the seasons are in my iphone. I may even run through the flashcards with my daughter so that she can learn her fruits and vegetables.

Very useful app and well laid out. Graphics are great. Easy to read and use. I like the nutritional information. Ive learned a lot from it. By far, the best app purchase Ive made. I originally made a mistake with the ratings I meant to list this app as 5 stars.

I work in the produce business and was very surprised to see such an app existed. Most, if not all, of the major common produce you would find in a typical produce department is listed with good yet sometimes breif information. Its not meant to be wikipedia so I dont dock it points for that. However, if you walk into a produce department of a much larger retail store you will find many uncommon and sometimes unusual items that really should be listed in this app (because those are the items most people want to know about and that is should be the main selling point for this app). This app took care of the common stuff, now lets see it tackle the uncommon stuff. There also should be a way for the user to separate all the items into two catagories: fruits or vegetables. It would make it much easier and faster to locate an item if the user doesnt know if an item is a fruit or a veggie. Lastly, I like that the user can select a season and get the fruits and veggies that are available during that season, but it should go into more detail and allow the user to select a particular month and have it provide all that is in season for that month, because there are many produce items that are only available for a few months. To list these items under an entire season would be missleading. Do these things and this app gets an easy 5.

I work in the produce dept in a large grocery store, and it seems it is missing some of the prime produce that I get asked most about. Ex: entire bean family, more salad greens, more ethnic produce, more tropical produce (coconut, coco root, etc) hybrid fruits/veggies (like the grapple, unique fruit, broccoliflower, etc...) If you are going to list different types of produce then list them all, like white onions are missing from the onion list & both green and red leaf are missing from the lettuce list. Im looking forward to updates as you add more to make the program more complete. I like the flashcards. All in all great start and worth the money. Would be five stars when more complete.

overall, the interface is really clean and the information is clear and accurate. aside from missing several key entries (which we hope will be released soon!) it would be amazing to see a note about the native geographical origins of each variety and where each is now grown. that information is invaluable for those of us attempting to consume more local produce.

...you added the rest of the significant nutritional info, like the major vitamins and minerals. Its a challenge for a vegetarian-- or anyone, really-- to get complete nutrition and knowing the vitamin/mineral content of produce would be a huge help. Looking forward to your updates.

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