“HarvestMark Food Traceability” is another app for cooks, that can be used on your Apple devices and can be downloaded from the Apple’s iTunes page. If you want this app speciffically, you can download it from iTunes, when you use an Apple device. For example, you want to use the app on your iPhone, you must download it on your iPhone, you want it on your iPod Touch, make sure that you have the iPod next to you, when you download it. This goes for iPad as well. The technical requirements involve these devices to run iOS 3.2 or later. Don’t worry about the price of the app, because YottaMark Inc., its manufacturer, distributes it for free.
But to convince you that the app is worth it, I must tell you a few words about it. You can find the description by yourselves at this link. HarvestMark is a system, in which there are included more farmers and fruit and vegetable producers. This means that when you see on a product the HarvestMark sign, you will be able to scan the product and you will see the entire genealogy of the product. For example, if you buy an apple, speaking of Apple, you will see from what plantation the apples were brought, when they were collected from the trees, what are the region in which this apple normally grows, what are the chemicals which were added to make the fruits tastier and many other information.
The codes that can be scan by the HarvestMark system can be found on over 50 brands of fruits and vegetables that are all across North America. Unfortunately, this system is not yet functional in Europe.
By knowing exactly how the fruits were planted, what were the chemicals added to their roots, how were they collected, the people will be able to take better decisions regarding their health and they could definitely say that they eat “Bio”, if they want. When you get a product from a supermarket, and read that it has the Bio logo on it, you simply know that no harmful chemicals were added to the product, but you don’t know where the product was planted, when it was harvested and others. You will simply know who delivers the product, who is the company who provided the packaging, but not information referring to the product necessarily.
