App for reading barcodes from food for nutritional information

[USMarineNCO]

I was shopping for a new phone for my girlfriend this afternoon and noticed the Droid has an application that will read barcodes on food items and return the nutrition information. She was extremely excited about that application and before I go out and buy her a Droid I'd like to see if it's available for my HTC Touch Pro (ROM'd to Win 6.5 and Sense UI 2.5). If anyone knows of an application like this for the Win phones I would really appreciate getting a link to it or even a cab for it!

Thanks a million in advance,
Carl

[meatgel]

Buy the Droid. My daughter has a Hero and I used that app on her phone and I loved it. I can't find anything like that for my TP2. One more reason to move to the Evo when it comes to Sprint this summer.

[mstevens]

Interesting.

There's no nutritional information stored in product barcodes, so the application must be using them to identify the product then searching a database for nutritional information that matches that product and returning that.

I have to ask: why not just go by the nutritional information printed right on the packaging? That's where you're finding the barcode, and it's going to be more accurate since there's far less chance of a mismatch between the product and the nutritional information. I can't imagine there are any products that don't have a nutrition label but do have a barcode and for some reason have accurate nutritional information in a database somewhere.

[meatgel]

Because the information is then automatically loaded into a calorie counting/nutrition app to help you watch your weight and stuff. It's a great app on Android.

[nrfitchett4]

that does sound cool...