Glyx: Glycemic Load & Index
A summary page enables a sorting order to display nutritional values, or alternatively vitamin or mineral contents, as desired. The app can thus be used to identify foods to counteract symptoms of deficiency in nutrition. To facilitate the search, the various foods are grouped into categories, with individual buttons for direct access. The search function works either for all foods or within each category. Upon selection of an individual food, the list shows the nutrition facts and facilitates the calculation of the various values with individual quantities, as entered on top of the page next to amount.
The supported nutrients are: Energy, protein, alcohol, water, carbohydrates, sugar, starch, fiber, fats (saturated, cholesterol, poly unsaturated, mono unsaturated), vitamins (A, carotene, B1, B2, B3, B5, B9, B12, D, E), sodium, potassium, chloride, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, iron, iodide, zinc.
Glyx is currently available in 4 languages, English, German, French and Italian and supports metric as well as imperial measurement units.
In the pipeline for future versions:• Assembling various foods to piece together an entire meal.• To save and share own menus with other users.• Rate and ranking of menus• Search for foods based on ingredients and nutritional values• Calculation of nutritional data for entire meals.• Direct comparison of foods
GuiltyBits is made up of two software developers and Glyx is the result of their efforts in their spare time. Our vision ist the creation of user friendly apps with high functionality. Your feedback will be very much appreciated and any help to improve Glyx is welcomed.
The database is provided by the Swiss Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office http://www.naehrwertdaten.ch/request?xml=MessageData&xml=MetaData&xsl=Start&lan=en&pageKey=Start
Category : Health & Fitness
Reviews (14)
Very nice interface: in addition to glycemic load, it also lists lots of other nutrition facts. Lacks most common foods, but it does sell an expansion pack. Definitely worth downloading if you're looking to buy something.
The interface looks good and has a lot of promise. First search for oatmeal yielded nothing. Was prompted with promise of a more complete database and purchased this. Later searched again for oatmeal and still nothing. Then I noticed a lot of reviews about the same issue. Please refund this purchase.
This app is telling wrong values, eg. Glycemic index of whole wheat is 66, while this app is telling 13, Gl for polished rice is 90 while this app is tell 15. I am uninstalling this app.
Excellent app for you when learning how to eat with healthier choices.
Bate and switch. To get the info that you need you have pay.
Has glycemic load and other nutrition facts.
If they don't have something as basic as sweet potatoes then I don't trust it.
No data on food...everything I searched for was the paid upgrade
Info was not available. That's the first thing I looked up. Seriously? Oats is a basic food. I'm uninstalling app because for me it's useless :(
Good app but poor database. Hope they improve it!
I use a lot the feature where i can compares food by diferents nutrients.
I have downloaded this app a number of times and each time found it to be less than helpful. Anytime I attempt a search for a good item I receive a: "data unavailable" - how can data be unavailable for something as simple as a "fig"? I don't know - I am guessing sereaching only works with the paid version then? Because any sereach I did came back with "data unavailable"
paid for upgrade room have more food options, didn't help no listing g for basic items that are high gloss like doughnut and spaghetti, waste of $1.99
Looked good but food choices were very limited. When I went to see the full range option there was no information on how much that would cost. I will wait until more work is done on this app before I reinstall it.