An Old Favorite – Fooducate: Nutrition Coach Review

I love this app. Every time I decide I’d like to lose some weight and/or watch what I’m eating I always end up using this again. *Side Note* I downloaded this back when it was promoted on Dr. Oz many years ago and was grandfathered in on the one-time fee for premium. I’m not sure if that makes my app different from the rest of you? Food/Calorie Tracking: I love that I can save common meals to add quickly. Things like my usual morning coffee with Honey and Flax Milk, my usual oatmeal concoction, my favorite Taco Bell order (for those cheat nights ?), my favorite baked chicken or schnitzel recipe, etc... It also saves the items you’ve added manually via the ‘USER ADDED’ list, but I also recommend scanning and sending in new grocery items on a regular basis. It provides convenience for you in the future and food grades for yourself as well as keeps the app up to date. Apple Connectivity: I have an Apple phone and watch and therefore, I frequently use the Activity App, Health App, and Workout App from Apple. Because this app connects to the Health App directly, my workouts and the active calories automatically load into the App as burned calories. You can also manually add workouts in the Fooducate app that will connect to the Health app as well (I’m not sure that this method is as accurate however). Nutrition you scan/enter connects to your Health App as well. Unfortunately, I don’t think Fooducate can pull new nutrition data from the Health App because they are tracked in lumped sums. I also have Sleep Cycle and this connects to Fooducate as well through the Health App. And finally, because this app can be connected to the Health app, my Bluetooth scale also connects and Fooducate gets automatic updates of my progress without me ever needing to lift a finger. Downsides: - newer grocery items needed to be added to the registry, but items get added quickly once you send in the pictures via phone camera and quick email all within the app). - Some apps that provide recipes and subsequent ‘downloadable’ nutrition info only connect to the Health App, but Fooducate cannot get nutrition data from the Health app. Mealime is an example. - I am not sure how accurate the burn calories are when you manually enter exercise within Fooducate.
Review by MelB218 on Fooducate: Nutrition Coach.