Just download Wolfram Alpha
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.
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No family sharing????
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!
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Not as useful as you'd think
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.
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For the home cook at best.
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.
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Potentially useful, but needs work
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) 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.
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Don't buy it
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.
Very Helpful
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
Thanks.
Chef Brent
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Great
This is the best.
