Veggie Bottoms Kitchen

$1.99, iPad, iPhone, Apple TV

Teaches: nutrition, food

CTR Rating: 76%

CTR Review

Forty real vegetarian recipes show how common vegetables, nuts, dairy products and fruits can be mixed and matched to make up different foods. The recipes are illustrated with step-by-step animated graphics, or you can view a traditional printed recipe. It is also easy to sort by Dairy Free, Nut Free, Egg Free or Vegan. The dynamic visual listing makes is easy to see how some common ingredients are used in many recipes. It is also easy to pull up a particular category of product -- e.g., only Egg Free for example. There are two modes: Test Kitchen - a rather random feeling open-ended activity where you freely combine up to four items into a smoothie, and Chef's Kitchen (the best part) where you can browse recipes and follow the steps, one at a time. The design is playful and the illustrations are nicely done, but the user experience could be improved and it is fair to note that this app is reading intensive, with small fonts on a regular sized iPad. For a child with food allergies, this app could be useful.