iPhone app can help find hummus and natural foods

Globe Staff

Here's an iPhone app that promises to give a gourmet the food homing instincts of a French pig on a truffle hunt.

The app is from Tribe Mediterranean Foods, a Taunton manufacturer of all-natural hummus, and according to Tribe, its Apple iPhone app allows users to locate natural food stores and farmer's markets based on their current or pending location, wherever they may be in the United States.

Not only does the app claim to help locavores and naturalists alike to find places and stores well stocked with hummus, tofu, and rain-washed nut meats, it also "offers consumers a list of delicious and healthy recipes for any occasion, courtesy of Tribe's website," the company said in a press release.

Tribe said its app is free for download through the Apple iPhone app store. Visitors to Tribe's website can access the download page via the address www.tribe hummus.com/promotions-and-events/i-phone-app, the company said.

"At Tribe, we understand how busy consumers are, yet we also know their desire for healthy and delicious all natural foods," Carlos Canals, president and chief tribal officer of Tribe Mediterranean Foods, said in a statement. "Our new iPhone app provides increased mobility, convenience, and recommendations to satisfy the need for simple all natural nutrition on-the-go."

(The photo with this post was taken from Tribe's website.)