"Can I Eat this?": App for travellers to get local taste and keep away from Diarrhoea

'Can I Eat This?', the app asks travellers to select the country they are visiting and answer a few questions about the item they are thinking of consuming. Researchers have now developed an app to help travellers avoid what's commonly known as traveller's diarrhoea, a condition that affects an estimated 10 million travellers each year.

They need to answer questions such as whether the food item or the beverage was bought from a street vendor and whether it was cooked.

"With 'Can I Eat This?', you can be more confident that your food and drink choices would not make you spend your international trip in the bathroom," informed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a US government public health agency that developed the app.

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