That's the concept behind FoodScanner, which adds barcode scanning to the iPhone food minding program concept. Either maintained on its own or synced with the associated DailyBurn website, FoodScanner is as simple as can be: Just scan a food item's barcode with your iPhone's camera, press a button to indicate how many servings you have had, and you will  immediately view an official style nutritional panel, the contents of which are stored in your personal food database so you can feel fat numerically, if not physically.

The program relies on a pre-existing database of about 200,000 foods and associated nutritional values, and the developers hope to see a bunch more once people start using the program linking an unrecognized barcode to a food item only takes users a few seconds. The only thing missing here, really, is the ability to scan noncoded items, like fruit and vegetable something which we know is at least probable, since Amazon's been doing it with their shopping apps for a while now. FoodScanner still requires you to type these items in manually.

The FoodScanner program debuts for 1 dollar, and the online DailyBurn service is free. Even if you are not dieting, there is a certain appeal to seeing your terrible, terrible diet quantified.