Improve food database
Lifesum is prettier than the alternatives but without a reliable database of foods it's no better than a spreadsheet or even, God forbid, myfitnesspal.
- Let people take photos of the nutritional label and parse those (there are standard types around the world)
- Try to find similar foods and merge them. Where data differs, note as much.
- Make it easier to work around others' inability to interpret labels correctly (by automating de-duplication, importing bulk research data like the USDA database).
- Make it easier to use volumetric units (more easily approximated than mass). This has to be done at food creation time to make sure people think about entering it.
- Make crowd-sourced data trivial to provide. Adding foods is currently cumbersome.
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Anonymous commented
Fix or hide your inaccurate database and remove Heath and step tracking prompts for the iPad. MAKE THE CAMERA ACCURATE PLEASE! It is the only feature worth subscribing for in my opinion. I want to love this app but you make it so hard with empty promises and flashy claims. Just make it work and make it simple. No one wants your meal plans or recepies. Just make an app that I can take a picture of what the food on my plate looks like,(THE MEAL NOT THE RAW INGREDIENTS) and guess what it is and how many calories are usually in it on average actually accurately maybe even 25% of the time. I could literally write you a book if you need, just fix the camera and stop working on everything else other than cleaning your data base and adding more automatic health tracking connections.
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Anonymous commented
Only allow verified additions to the database. There's so many inaccuracies.
Don't put a serving size as 1 serving. Be specific about how much that serving is. -
Anonymous commented
Only allow verified additions to the database. There's so many inaccuracies.
Don't put a serving size as 1 serving. Be specific about how much that serving is. -
Anonymous commented
Only allow verified additions to the database. There's so many inaccuracies.
Don't put a serving size as 1 serving. Be specific about how much that serving is. -
Anonymous commented
To OP, doesn't the "category" section of food (basic and untreated) contain only veryfied food? At least all of it has a blue dot behind and is "Verified by Lifesum".
However, I agree to the second topic.
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Anonymous commented
All basic foods (untreated) should have a entry certified by Lifesum in the database. Often, many vegetables and other foods do not have it. In addition, the recipes introduced by the users must have a list of ingredients, otherwise they will never be precise.
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Anonymous commented
It would be nice to know the breakdown of various common indian food items like moong dal, vegetables, and others, which are consumed on a regular basis by many users
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Blake Haffner commented
Please add tovala meals to your database thank you.
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Alex commented
I noticed that there are A LOT of foods that are not in the database, but they are in the myfitnesspal database, I would recommend imrpoving this drastically as it is a major deciding factor and inconvenience that makes me seriously consider using myfitnesspal over lifesum. I personally love the lifesum interface and prefer it over myfitnesspal, but this one key issue is major.
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Anonymous commented
Most of the Food choices/menu arent available in the Philippines. Thinking purchase of this apps is waste of money... but may I appeal if there is possibilities to cater our need in Asian taste buds.
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Tiffany commented
There's so many places to get this information and it doesn't seem like they're using any of them. It's really disappointing.
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Alexander Häusermann commented
Could you please have more focus on importing additional food databases from external sources? This could help to correct wrongly stored food items in your DB.
To start you could use the following database for Switzerland's food:
https://www.foodrepo.org/ -
Anonymous commented
it would be best that you could offer a function where we can import excel / google sheet and add our food to the list! Most of my meals are Chinese food, and the list is very limited. I understand that you currently do not offer chinese translation and you are not targeting Chinese users, however such a function will benefit many more people!
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Jeanette commented
Stop letting so Many wrong nutritions get in to The database.
It is ok, We have som receipts/meals only for personal. But not make it official.
The databases is full of crap people are typing wrong.
Ex. “Grannys pie”=800 kaloriesOr.
“My sausage”: 400 kalories... It is invidual crap with no nutrition or even ingrediens. -
Anonymous commented
Very important not to exclude billions of population who enjoys Chinese food in a daily basis.
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Mathias commented
Removing duplicates is the single most important "feature" for me. Actually it is no feature, but a quality standard that must always be met
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Ryan commented
100% agree with this. I tried to search for a medium Costa Latte and was hit with a huge number of user-submitted options. Lifesum needs some serious quality control on its database. Ideally, this information should come directly from manufacturers/ vendors. I'm not sure if you have any existing contacts or API's available to allow this.
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Tobias commented
Code Check is a huge database with a lot of detailed food information. You should request a cooperation. This would make booth apps much more useful.
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Juan David commented
MFP does this great thing when searching for food.
If you type in a restaurants name in the food search. It will group all of the restaurants food items into a "menu" group. Making it really easy to search through that restaurants food database. It'd be great if you could implement this and include a multiadd option that way you can check multiple items to add from one search instead of one at a time.
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Anonymous commented
I would like to suggest that Lifesum Link the information found here https://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/search/list to its program to offer more consistent and correct food information. If you follow the link you will find the National database that factories, manufactures and other food companies use to get the information for their products nutrition facts label. If it is not possible to link your serveses to the national database to provide consistent and correct food information perhaps have a link that will allow users to reference food they add. Hopefully a partnership with the USDA National DataBase will reduce or eliminate Discrepancy in nutritional tracking. Thank you for your time.