Health and Fitness websites are popping up all over the place! Today we discovered one called Nutritter, which is making use of the ever so popular Twitter service.

Nutritter’s purpose is very simple at the present time. When you make a twitter post about what you’ve eaten, Nutritter detects what you wrote and calculates the nutritional values of the food.

For example, for tea tonight, I would hop on Twitter and say the following:

Bread roll, chicken, lettuce, mayonaise #nutritteralpha

I can do this all day via my phone if I want to (if I was a twitter nerd) and then sign into Nutritter’s website and view the results.

On Nutritter’s website I can then modify the values if they’re off a bit, or add in more foods if I forgot to tweet a meal. (most likely due to the Failwhale)

So far this seems to be the only thing they do. But that’s pretty decent if you want to track your eating and can’t be stuffed writing it all down and calculating the nutritional values yourself. And even then, by seeing the nutritional value on Nutritter you will learn the values of your foods anyway!

Here’s the preview video of what Nutritter is about:

When I searched for my favourite steak on the food database, the nutritional value stated that my average sized porterhouse steak has 62 grams fat and 49 grams protein! Thank god it’s in alpha version!

Find the Food Database here

The Nutritter blog here

And the Nutritter website here