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Something like this would be a fantastic addition to MyFitnessPal. I find myself sometimes not logging food on that app because I couldn't be bothered to searc
by AJRF 10y ago
Something like this would be a fantastic addition to MyFitnessPal.
I find myself sometimes not logging food on that app because I couldn't be bothered to search for it.
On the other hand if the product has a barcode I always scan it in because that is convenient.
- subcosmos 10y agoSame - its one of the reasons I wanted to make my own. That and data export functionality, which is requisite for research.
- swah 10y agoI feel like its easy to make a better app if you don't try to please all use cases - just try to make the food logging in less taps. Logging in those apps takes me around 5-10 taps plus typing the food name. Ify ou could do it in 2 or 3, it would be great.
- jcoffland 10y agoIf you're eatting a lot of food with barcodes on it then your doing it wrong.
- lj3 10y agoI wonder if somebody would buy a "highly opinionated calorie tracker" that only has non-barcode foods stored in it and mocks you when you try to add bad food to its database. If you miss your macros for the day, it would then text everyone in your phone that you're a fat weenie with no willpower.
- AJRF 10y agojcoffland would. He would throw money at it. A tracker that doesn't even allow for barcodes to be scanned? Perfect!
- SolaceQuantum 10y agoI don't understand this sentiment. My grocery store allows us to print barcodes that describe the weight and price of any produce or bulk order we purchase. This ranges from quinoa, oats, nuts, seeds, tea, along with the usual fruits and veggies. Also, don't bulk packages of vegetables tend to have barcodes on them inherently?
- jcoffland 10y agoBut those barcodes wont show up in a public database. Also bulk foods are not fresh. Fresh food from local farmers does not usually have a barcode on it. This is not just snobbery.
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- subcosmos 10y agoI see you work for the folding@home guys. Excellent work!
- dimino 10y agoAll food has bar codes.
- hammock 10y agoProduce is probably the most common type of food that does not typically have a barcode. It has a product code on it that is entered in manually while the weight measurement is taken.
- jcoffland 10y agoMeat from a butcher does not. Food from your own garden does not. Restaurant food also does not typically have barcodes.
- dimino 10y agoYour own garden? True. Everything else you just listed actually does, at least on the ingredients (for prepared food). The more general point is that food in the US has to be at a certain level of quality to be sold, literal barcodes aside.