So There’s an App about Farting (It’s Not As Gross As It Sounds)
It’s hard to get kids to make healthy eating choices. But it’s easy to get them to laugh at farts.
This simple fact was the basis for a new app created by the BETA Group, agency Goodby, Silverstein & Partners’ group of in-house developers. The agency designed the app hoping it would educate kids to make smarter dining choices.
According to Fast Company, you can scan any item’s barcode in the grocery store using the “Fart Code app,’’ and it will tell you if any of the ingredients (like fructose, wheat, fiber or sorbitol) will cause flatulence.
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The “Fart-o-meter’’ ranks the fart power of your food as either “stinky, gross, rank, putrid, or toxic.’’ We’re a little unclear as to whether the “toxicity’’ of the fart correlates to really nutritious, or really unhealthy food, however.
“Fart Code’’ creators submitted a list of common food ingredients that make you gassy to Buzzfeed, though, and among some of the top offenders are the following: Fructose, lactose, dairy, whey, rice, and beans. (Wait, beans make you fart?!)
According to the agency’s website, schools across San Francisco have already signed up to use the app to teach course curricula.
We wonder if teachers in Mass. will soon be hearing the technological toots of their pupils.
Wouldn’t you want to share your cyber-farts with friends? It’s science, people! Stinky, stinky science.
But there’s still a few glitches: We had trouble scanning some barcodes and got a tweet from Goodby, Silverstein & Partners saying the “higher-than-expected traffic’’ caused the scanning API to hang up temporarily.
You can download Fart Code at Apple’s App Store, and “pass’’ your time actually learning something.
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