Showing posts with label kosher iphone apps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kosher iphone apps. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Want to Keep Kosher? There is an App for That!

The Chicago Tribune has the scoop on a new app from the CRC for android phones. The point of the app is to assist users in keeping kosher dietary laws.


"Apps are part of the community," said Rabbi Dovid Cohen, the council's administrative coordinator. "We realize this is how people are getting their information and want to provide that service."

The app offers access to an extensive database of kosher product information which will help the consumers determine if a particular product is in fact kosher. For example does sugar need kosher certification? Click on foods and then scroll down to sugar and when you click you discover that white, brown and confectionery sugars do not require certification to be kosher. 

Although the Iphone version was available last year this is the first app for the android which will allow greater access to this important information to more users. They are constantly expanding their database to include more items. One thing I did notice they need to add are cereals. 

Monday, August 18, 2008

Kosher IPhone Apps?

Zalman Goldstein (of The Jewish Learning Group) has released two free apps for the iPhone and iTouch. Here are the 2 apps:







1) iBlessing

Press a food type on the placemat and see the associated blessing's name pop up. Release your finger and hear the blessing pronounced for you slowly and clearly, word-for-word, enabling you to repeat after it and learn the blessing on your own!

2) ParveOMeter

Am I "Dairy"? Am I "Meaty"?

A program of Biblical proportion, the PARVE-O-METER will help you keep track of the waiting times between eating meat or dairy, or dairy and meat.

*Press the “Meat” button when you have finished eating meat or meat products, and the timer counts down the requisite 6 hours before you can eat or drink dairy products.

*Press the “Dairy” button when you have finished eating dairy or dairy products, and the timer counts down the requisite 0, 30, or 60 minutes (depending on the custom of your local Jewish community) before you can eat meat products again.

*Set your waiting period preferences based on the custom of your local Jewish community.




(HT Shmias News)