# Wolfram Culinary Mathematics Reference App

> Culinary math reference app for recipes, nutrition, cost, and food economics. (iPhone/iPad app by Wolfram Group LLC.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/wolfram-culinary-mathematics-reference-app/id563979103 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Wolfram Group LLC](https://appshunter.io/developer/715130979)
- Category: Food & Drink, Reference
- Price: $1.99
- Rating: 5.00/5 from 2 App Store ratings · 8 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 9.3 · 13 MB
- Languages: English
- Released: 2012-10-31
- Data updated: 2026-06-10
- Monetization: paid
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/wolfram-culinary-mathematics-reference-app/id563979103/reviews.md

## What is Wolfram Culinary Mathematics Reference App?

Trying a recipe for the first time? Planning a weekly menu? The Wolfram Culinary Mathematics Reference App will help streamline your culinary tasks by providing you with quick access to a set of tools specially designed for kitchen efficiency. With the Wolfram Culinary Mathematics Reference App you can access general information and perform simple cooking computations, or research food economics for a particular region or country. Get ready to explore what you can do using mathematics and the culinary arts.

 - Get nutritional information for individual foods or entire meals
 - Access the Recommended Daily Allowance and Dietary Reference Intake information for essential vitamins and nutrients
 - Convert recipes and ingredient measurements to serve larger or smaller groups
 - Locate nearby grocery stores by place or store name
 - Perform simple math calculations while cooking
 - Calculate the cost of food per recipe, per unit, per portion, and more, with options to use yield percent or trim
 - Research food economics for specific years and countries with data about production and consumption, average prices, and comparisons 

The Wolfram Culinary Mathematics Reference App is powered by the Wolfram|Alpha computational knowledge engine and is created by Wolfram Research, makers of Mathematica—the world's leading software system for mathematical research and education.

The Wolfram Culinary Mathematics Reference App draws on the computational power of Wolfram|Alpha's supercomputers over 3G, 4G, or Wi-Fi connection.

## Key features

- Nutritional information for foods and meals
- Recommended Daily Allowance and Dietary Reference Intake
- Recipe and ingredient measurement conversion
- Grocery store locator
- Simple cooking math calculations
- Food cost calculation
- Food economics research

## Recent user reviews (8 of 8)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/wolfram-culinary-mathematics-reference-app/id563979103/reviews.md

### 1/5 — Just download Wolfram Alpha

*2015-10-18*

I'm a huge fan of the Wolfram Alpha app...enough so that I've purchased several of their more dedicated apps, like this Culinary Math app.  In trying to look up the nutritional value of basic ingredients and produce, the Culinary Math app can't find words like "apple," "banana," "cauliflower," or "broccoli."  Looking up these words in Wolfram Alpha brings up all the nutritional info and more.  Culinary Math is a disappointing rip-off of an app from a company that prides itself on computational knowledge.  Terrible app, disappointment in Wolfram.

### 1/5 — No family sharing????

*2015-03-23*

No family sharing? A message comes up that says something to the effect of, "can't download because this was purchased by another user or the subscription was cancelled". Then nothing! Can't even purchase it for the lousy CAD$ 2.29 if I wanted to. Went to the developer website to leave feedback, but it's Apple iPad unfriendly and won't let me type text. I decided to come here instead and vent! The sad thing is they probably pay some clown a lot of money to figure this stuff out. Good job Wolfram!

### 2/5 — Not as useful as you'd think

*2013-05-05*

This app is not for the UK market as most of the features I purchased this for don't work outside of the US.  Other features are limited, I.e. the store locator has a strange allegiance to Tesco excluding all other supermarkets.  The information can be difficult to access but is very well presented.  In all honesty save your money and search the web instead.

### 1/5 — For the home cook at best.

*2013-02-25*

This app does not provide a lot of solid information. For all of the trim data for example and APQ,EPQ it does not provide any food data, where some other computer programs will provide a estimated trim for a particular type of food and offer a library of ingredients that have trim information. Why even offer a trim option on the app if there is no data for it? Anyone can weight the product then cut the trim and weight again to get the info. The library of ingredients offered food economics is a joke, mostly processed foods. If you are attending a culinary college you will learn culinary math while attending such as I did. This will help you throughout your career and sometime other areas such as spotting a bad culinary app. I thought this would be a fun app being familiar with other apps by wolfram but I was wrong. Spend your money elsewhere.

### 2/5 — Potentially useful, but needs work

*2013-01-29*

The density conversion portion of the app is key for me. Using it brought these anomalies to light:

1) For example, gives same density for powdered sugar as granulated sugar. Incorrect: powdered sugar has about 60% the density of granulated sugar. 

2) It should be possible to express the weight of ingredients in metric units, particularly in the Volume<->Mass conversions. 

3) It is ironic that while weights are given in ounces, density is given in units of g/cm^3.

4) Very annoying is attempting to edit text in the Ingredients field: put the cursor somewhere *in* the text, hit the delete key, and the cursor jumps to the end of the text having deleted nothing. 

5) I can find no preferences that control the interface.

Wolfram software is generally excellent and I am confident that this app will follow that trend eventually.

### 1/5 — Don't buy it

*2013-01-04*

I just wasted money on food software that gave me an "oops" result when I tried to compute the nutrition of 1 cup strawberries and 0.5 cup mango.  Totally useless.

### 5/5 — Very Helpful

*2012-11-29*

As a Chef and Culinary Arts Instructor this is an app I can stand behind. I use this several times per week as a teaching tool for my culinary students. Part of being a chef and an instructor is demanding the best out of your tools, and smart planning. This app helps me to do both. Planning out seasonal menus and lessons have become much easier. My students and my Culinary Institute are happy we found this app.
Thanks.
Chef Brent

### 5/5 — Great

*2012-11-26*

This is the best.

## Frequently asked questions about Wolfram Culinary Mathematics Reference App

### What is Wolfram Culinary Mathematics Reference App?

Wolfram Culinary Mathematics Reference App is a tool designed to streamline culinary tasks by providing quick access to kitchen efficiency tools, nutritional information, recipe conversions, and food economics research.

### What are the key features of Wolfram Culinary Mathematics Reference App?

Key features include getting nutritional information, accessing dietary recommendations, converting recipes, locating grocery stores, performing cooking math, calculating food costs, and researching food economics.

### How much does Wolfram Culinary Mathematics Reference App cost?

Wolfram Culinary Mathematics Reference App is a paid app, priced at $1.99. It does not have in-app purchases or advertisements.

### What devices support Wolfram Culinary Mathematics Reference App?

The app supports iPhone, iPad, and iPod devices.

### Is Wolfram Culinary Mathematics Reference App suitable for children?

The app has an age rating of 4+, making it suitable for younger users interested in food and cooking.

### How often is Wolfram Culinary Mathematics Reference App updated?

The app was last updated on May 15, 2017, with version 1.3.1. It relies on the Wolfram|Alpha computational knowledge engine for its data.

### Does Wolfram Culinary Mathematics Reference App require an internet connection?

Yes, the app draws on the computational power of Wolfram|Alpha's supercomputers, requiring a 3G, 4G, or Wi-Fi connection to function.

### What is the user feedback on Wolfram Culinary Mathematics Reference App?

The app has received excellent user feedback, with an average rating of 5.0 stars from 2 ratings.

## Version history (last 3 releases)

### 1.3.1 — 2017-05-15

This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.

- Bug fixes

### 1.2 — 2014-10-28

- Bug fixes

### 1.0.0 — 2012-10-01

No release notes.

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