![]() MyFitnessPal is decent for overall weight loss, but the data is too limited for much more. This is actually a huge deal if you’re using a food tracker for an uncommon diet (vegan, keto) and are checking for nutrient deficiencies. It shows you this data in a table format for each individual food, and also overall. It focuses on calories, fat, protein, carbs, and fiber. MyFitnessPal: With MyFitnessPal, you only get the basics. I really have no complaints, it’s awesome. The data is all color-coded and presented in easy to understand graphics. This is on top of the basics like calories, fat, protein, and carbohydrates.Īlso note that Cronometer automatically calculates net carbs (MyFitnessPal doesn’t), which is useful if you’re on a keto diet. Daily AnalysisĬronometer: Provides a detailed nutritional breakdown of your vitamins, minerals, and amino acids. Trends and Analysisīoth apps provide a daily nutrition analysis in your food diary, and also provide weekly reports as well. I think you’ll find that if you care about accuracy a decent amount, the amount of incorrect user-generated food items in MyFitnessPal’s database will cost you a lot of time double-checking things. MyFitnessPal: For that same recipe, MyFitnessPal says there are only 400 calories per serving.īased on the packages of my food, Cronometer is correct, and MyFitnessPal is quite a bit off. MyFitnessPal: Has about every food you can think of, including specific brands and pre-packaged foods.Īgain, if I search for PlantFusion protein powder, it comes up no problem:Ĭronometer: Since it only pulls data from reputable sources, the data is almost always accurate.įor a basic kidney beans and rice recipe that I had last night, Cronometer says it has 568 calories per serving. The food databases they use (NCCDB, USDA, ESHA, CRDB) focus mostly on whole foods and some really popular brands.įor example, a search for my favorite protein powder yields some decent alternatives, but no results that are actually PlantFusion: Food VarietyĬronometer: Doesn’t have a lot of specific brands or pre-packaged foods in their database. MyFitnessPal let’s anyone add custom foods to it, ensuring they have the biggest database possible.Ĭronometer only sources data from reputable food databases, ensuring high accuracy, but not the largest database. Food Variety Vs Accuracyīoth tools take a very different approach to foods in their database. It does make some mistakes, but it’s the best recipe parser I’ve found, and much faster than entering manually.Ĭronometer doesn’t have a recipe importer in any form, so keep that in mind if this is important to you. It then parses the ingredients and lets you change any that it got wrong. MyFitnessPal has an awesome recipe importer that allows you to enter in a URL or paste in a recipe’s ingredients. So the winner here depends on which of those you value more. However, Cronometer gives you a more detailed look at the nutrition of the meal. The downside is that when you go to “my meals” and click on the meal, all it shows you are the nutritional basics (calories, fats, carbs, protein, fiber).įor creating meals, MyFitnessPal is more intuitive and faster. This is incredibly easy and fast, and the meal will then be selectable in the input form we looked at just above. MyFitnessPal: Once you add foods to a meal in the day, you can select “quick tools” right below and finally “remember meal”. Here’s a short video I made to walk you through the process: It could be a little more intuitive at the beginning, but is fast once you’re used to it. You can see a detailed nutritional breakdown of the meal as you put it together. From here you can add a new custom food or recipe, and add ingredients to it. ![]() Saving Recipesīoth apps also let you bundle together foods as custom recipes so that you don’t have to input all the ingredients individually every time.Ĭronometer: To do this in Cronometer, you need to navigate to your “FOODS” tab on the top menu. I’d give a slight edge to Cronometer just because adding food can all be done on one page. It functions almost identically to Cronometer’s input form. When you click “add food” it loads another page (one extra step) with a similar food search and input box. ![]() MyFitnessPal: MyFitnessPal allows you to add food to each individual meal (breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks). It’s also immediately obvious how to add food to a day on either tool.Ĭronometer: Cronometer has a single button to add food, as it doesn’t break down your day by meals.Ĭlicking the button brings up a simple input box where you can search for foods or pick from recent, favorite, or custom foods. Adding Foods and Recipesīoth apps make it easy to find your “food diary”. I’ll quickly go over how easy and intuitive it is to use each tool for common tasks.
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