Another in our series of app reviews to help you in the kitchen, this time I took a look at an app suggested by Chuti—Harvest for the iPhone.
Harvest is a very straight-forward app with one purpose—to help you select the best fruits and vegetables when you’re at the market.
The interface is very intuitive. Launch the app and you’re given an alphabetical list of all the produce in the app to choose from:
Select the item you’re looking for, or use the search filter located at the top right hand corner to search for an item and then select it. Once you’ve done that, you’ll be taken to the item’s page, which consists of lots of good information starting with a picture of the produce, how to choose the best of the bunch, some information about the item and even (if you click on the “Storing” button in the upper right hand corner) how to keep the produce fresh once you get it home.
One other useful piece of information available in Harvest is the item’s “Pesticide Level.” It appears at the bottom of the item’s page and you can even choose it as an option on the main screen of the app to sort the produce by “Pesticide Level.” The last option on the main screen is the “About Harvest,” which gives you a link to their website (which is not very useful as it’s just an advertisement for the app) and a button to suggest more produce items.
All in all, I found Harvest to be a valuable and very easy-to-use app, especially for a food noob like myself. It was super convenient to have in my pocket on my phone when I was wandering around the market. My only gripe about it is the price. The website lists it for $2.99, the App Store has it (at the time of this writing) for $1.99 and it’s been on sale at least once for $0.99 It’s totally worth it at 99 cents, not a bad deal at $1.99, and not worth the price at $2.99. I think it’d be nice if they stuck with the $ 0.99 price, but I’m not altogether unhappy with it at the $1.99 price. I’m going to give it 4 pans.
(all prices are in US Dollars)
Harvest for the iPhone
by Sean Murphy
Available in the App Store [Link]
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