Seniors' food scanning app makes shopping safer for those with health risks
Subscribe to our newsletter here. While grocery shopping with her cousin in August 2019, Kyra Thomas read food labels in search of pescatarian options. She thought it would be helpful to have a way to scan food labels and immediately know what is in the items she was contemplating buying. “Reflecting on my experience — when it comes to finding food I can eat — put the idea in my head that it would be cool to be able to scan food without taking it off the shelf,” said Thomas, a Syracuse University senior. InfoBytes, Thomas’ app that’s currently in development, creates a health pro...