New iPhone application Eat Safe may help travelers with food allergies

Those with serious food allergies know that ordering meals in a foreign country where you don’t speak the language can be a dicey and potentially deadly ordeal.

Eat Safe, a new iPhone application ($3.99), helps bridge the communication gap between diner and waiter when it comes to ingredients in certain dishes.

The program, a model in simplicity, allows the iPhone to display a clear illustration of 18 products, such as fish, dairy products or peanuts, that the patron can’t eat.

You can download it to your iPhone from the application store or through iTunes.

–Tim Hubbard, L.A. Times staff writer

[Photo: Apple Inc.]

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