I’ve just reviewed 6 web apps for food tracking - Lose It, myfitnesspal, USDA Supertracker, fatsecret, WebMD and Fooducate today. They all suck in one way or another.
WebMD, Lose It, USA Supertracker don’t have the most basic foods.
Lose It, MyFitnessPal don’t have food photos.
Fooducate has foods and photos, but you can’t added them to your food log. There’s no interface to update data - you have to email them. The first food I looked up, Trader Joe’s Uncured Turkey Dogs, had outdated data.
fatsecret can’t evan calculate calories right (screenshot)
myfitnesspal has a massive duplicates problem, and their solution is… editing the food title to include the words “DUPLICATE PLEASE DELETE”, after which their engineers will allegedly review them.
TheDailyPlate / LiveStrong I won’t touch with a 10-foot pole. I volunteered with them a few years ago enough to get featured on their website, but they never fixed the issues I had pointed out. Essentially, their database schema was badly screwed up, which prevented any progress.
At this point, I track my food intake in an Excel spreadsheet.