Healthy Recipes app review

Healthy Recipe

Price: Free

Healthy Recipes by SparkPeople is meant to help you achieve your weight loss goals by providing you with tasty health conscious recipe ideas.

Not only will these recipes help you lose weight but you can also save money by cooking at home. You'll be able to prepare restaurant-quality dishes for a fraction of the cost. Plus you'll be able to brag to your friends about your creations.

With this app you'll be able to search and browse through over 190,000 recipes. When you come across those that you like, you can save them as favorites for easy access in the future.

You can search by such parameters as preparation time, ethnicity, or by course. You'll be able to view the nutritional value of the recipes since it shows items like the carb count, calories, and 10 additional nutrients for each of the recipes.

Besides just reading the recipes, you can also use the app to watch cooking technique videos. The videos are from Chef Meg, who is the site's healthy cooking expert. The videos are meant to give you tips on preparing some of the most popular recipes you'll find in the database.

This latest version of the app now supports the larger iPhone 5 screen.

Healthy Recipes was updated on Nov. 7, 2012 and currently has 10 customer ratings with an average rating of three and a half out of five stars.

This was a great variety of recipes at the touch of a few taps. I liked how easy it was to search for recipes picking things like cuisine type, occasion, and dietary needs.

For: iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad with iOS 4.3 or later