Fooducate: Nutrition Coach

Name: Fooducate: Nutrition Coach
Rating: 4.64898 (74744 reviews)

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Fooducate: Nutrition Coach

Health & Fitness

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74.7K ratings

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Maple Media Apps, LLC

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User Reviews for Fooducate: Nutrition Coach

Con and pros

Im using upgraded PRO version. PROs: I switched to this app from My Fitness Pal only because they have a feature of different Diets such as PCOS (my case), Diabetic , Low Carb and etc. so I’m very happy to be able to check for pcos compliance food. I’m exited for new medical conditions to be added in this app ! (For example thyroid disease diet)-Also this app is great at showing you red flags of the food!! (Usage of artificial sweetener, hydrogenate oils, glycerol and other nasty stuff that MyFitnessPal Can’t see) So I found out many of my favorite food is contained dangerous stuff, hidden behind innocent words in ingredients. Amazing! Cons: 1)Scanner doesn’t work! ( most of the time. ) MyFitnessPal is scanning fast within a seconds and find your food immediately - Fooducate can’t do it, you will be inputting all food yourself and will waste a lot of time doing this.2) Database is very VERY poor! MyFitnessPal has almost all food you can ever imagine in their database , in Fooducate you will have to “create a new food” each time you add it.Bottom line: regarding all cons I purchased PRO version of Fooducate, because it’s contributing more to my health and PCOS condition. But it would be nice if they could fix their scanner and update their database with more food (or just ask MyFitness Pal to share their amazing database)

angie_mia, May 04, 2020

Helpful and Informative

Fooducate helps me be more aware of every bite I put in my mouth, because I know I will have to enter it into the app. I like that it also helps me understand more about the quality of ingredients and nutrients I'm consuming. I wish that it had an easy way to know more about a food before adding to my daily intake. I find that I have to add a food first in order to see just how it will affect the daily goals, nutrition info, etc. It would be helpful to me to be able to look at that detailed info as I try to decide what to choose for snacks and meals. The feature may be there, but if it is I haven't found it yet. I've been using the app a little over a week and have lost over a pound, so I'm seeing good results. It reminds me of when I used Weight Watchers points tracking, which also worked well for me. I also like the diet tips, where I have read some interesting information. The notifications are nice to help me remember to log in each meal before I forget what I ate. This is a good solid app. I have also found it worth the extra money to unlock the premium features. I plan to continue using this one!

Bewildered1965, Aug 03, 2017

Annoyed no that it keeps prompting me to rate the app

The developer responded to my 1 star review which made me feel kind of like a jerk for leaving a negative review in anger over the prompting for a review, which is apparently not their fault. The prompting for a review was still annoying but I appreciate the response so I’ll change it to 5 stars. As soon as I started using it, it kept prompting me to rate the app so I’m giving it a 1 star in the hopes that the prompting will go away. I have no idea if the app is any good since I haven’t really started using it yet. Furthermore I would suggest that most of the ratings it does have are from similar circumstances where people just rated it to get the prompts to go away and don’t don’t really have any idea if the app was good or not. So annoying. Hopefully it really is a good app and eventually I’ll be able to give it a better rating, but I doubt I would be motivate to go back and write another review. You can tell how annoying the prompts were since I’m typing so much.

David------, Sep 03, 2018

Awfully small database

The concept is great which is why I ended up buying a one year membership but you either have to cook all your meals (which I often do on weekdays) or buy a meal at a very unhealthy store like McDonalds or taco bell or a packaged frozen dinner (which is very unhealthy and they acknowledge it too) for them to figure out your calorie intake. There is no middle ground. I went out to a Mexican place for lunch today as it’s the weekend and shared a plate of nachos with my friend but there’s no way of estimating my calorie consumption unless I know the portion size of each ingredient unless I am willing to go eat at tacobell. Their grocery list is also very small, most of the healthier brands don’t appear on their database. So I would have to either type in my calorie intake manually or buy a mass produced alternative listed in their database, neither of which sounds appealing to me. If you expect me to use the app everyday for a long time, you should make it super easy to add my consumption and estimate my calorie intake. I am just a week in to my membership and I already regret my purchase.

frustratedUser1900, Feb 03, 2019

5-stars!!

I absolutely love this app! I downloaded Fooducate a while back when I had a bit of extra weight I wanted to lose and fell in love with it. It really helped me become more aware of the food I was eating and the different ways food labels trick us into eating unhealthy foods. I scan literally every new food I choose when I’m in the supermarket to make sure I am keeping in line with my health goals. Anytime I hear about new nutrition trends/ingredients/products, Fooducate is the first place I go to check it out. I also love how the app shows me if a food I scan has nightshades in it. I have a major food sensitivity to nightshades and they are often hidden in the ingredients, so this makes my life way easier! This app has changed the way I look at the foods I eat and helped me so much in my health journey.

HGM889, Jan 14, 2020

Mixed feelings

Only been using the app a month or so. Bought the annual subscription which is a good deal. I like how the app works and the database seems extensive. It’s easy enough to use and I have been tracking food carefully. It has made me make better choices. However - I haven’t seen any weight loss this first month. Despite tracking carefully to the ~2k calories that it indicates, and doing daily light exercise (stationary bike) - the pounds will go down 1 day and back up the next. I am scanning and measuring the food out too. Perhaps it’s my age because I have no health conditions. The daily calorie limit does seem to be slowly tapering down in the app now. I assume that’s a feature that will allow me to finally start losing - but the lack of support and info doesn’t make it easy to figure out. I have emailed the support mailbox but the responses are slow to come. Been waiting 3 plus days now for my last question to be answered. It’s only my second email to them. Is there some sort of FAQ that explains how this all works and what to expect? I looked at the community forum section but it’s not intuitive to me. Lots of food pics is what I see there. Is there a place to post questions and get responses from other users? Still hopeful but a little bit disappointed as well overall.

Jdjax2, Apr 27, 2022

Can’t wait for a companion Mac app!

I’m a nutritionally illiterate 40-year-old boy with terrible eating habits. I like everything I’m not supposed to eat, and I feel sometimes like I hate all healthy options. I was overjoyed to discover that this app existed — and links with Apple Health — to give me much needed insight and feedback into my eating habits so I can make some adjustments to my diet. This app’s interface is clean and mostly intuitive immediately upon first use this morning, and it’s gotten easier and I’ve discovered further features easily through the day. Unfortuantely, it lacks a companion Mac app; working on entering new recipes would be a lot easier on the larger Mac screen rather than being hemmed into the dimensions of my iPhone. I’d also like it see deeper and richer integration with Noom: so far, I have seen that Fooducate will write calorie data into Noom, but it doesn’t provide rich enough information that Noom can rank the food into their green, yellow, and orange categories to help me keep more careful track of my Noom goals. Those two gripes, however, are small compared to the invaluable service I feel it offers me as I’m trying to make the adjustments I’m trying to make.If you’re similarly clueless about nutrition and have little patience for learning more on your own, let this app do the work for you. What a bargain the premium features are!

JoshM199, Mar 19, 2023

Basically just annoying

First- it only gives you three units of measurement to log things. For example you can log a whole onion (in NLEA serving size, whatever that is) or you can log it by gram or ounce. Not bad even though a bit ridiculous. But then there's things (i.e. Sriracha sauce) that you can log by TBSP g or oz... But what if I consumed 1/8 of TEASPOON? I find myself doing a lot of conversions on the side just to log. Second- there is interface kind of stuff that really grind my gears. After you hit "done" when logging a food a banner pops up that it was successful and that banner blocks the back button. You have to wait for the banner to go away to go back to the search page to log another food. Not to mention changing one thing on your diet profile (i.e. keto to Mediterranean) it changes EVERYTHING... Your macros being the most annoying. Then there's the part when you click for details on your breakdown and go back it goes back to the top of the page. So if I want to see what foods had the most potassium today (which is at the very bottom of the breakdown) then I click "back" it goes right back up to calories. I do like the rating system for this. It seems more stringent than others' ratings. However I wish I had not paid for this app as it's too annoying to use.

kashley knows math, Jul 17, 2022

I really wanted to like this app

I signed up for the 3 day free trial but was charged for the app even before the trial was finished. It’s already on my credit card! There are thing I do like about the app however, the scan feature barely ever works. I rarely eat any processed food. I home cook every thing I eat. Trying to input a food or recipe of my own is somewhat challenging. I add every ingredient and add the “grade” I think it is and it won’t save it. When I do manage to save one of my foods not listed in the database, it doesn’t show up under my foods. It’s possible that it’s just me and the learning curve to the app but it’s frustrating and 3 days just isn’t enough time to figure out if it’s worth the $. I have no problem with paying for an app that will work for me. The developers should be paid for their work. However, I need a little more time working with it to determine if it’s the right one for me AND it shouldn’t show up on my credit card BEFORE the trial is over! I’ve cancelled the app because of this. UPDATE: I received a response from the developer regarding the CC issue above, however I’ve gotten many free trial apps over the years via Apple and have never been charged immediately for a free trial. It’s always been after the trial has expired. Maybe it’s a new policy. If they fix the food addition issue and scan issues I’d would give it another try.

LilBooBooBaby, Mar 31, 2023

Great for quality-based eating

I have bad mindsets around counting calories, like getting obsessed with numbers and binging out. The main focus of Fooducate is to help you eat better. The calorie tracker has the number of calories left for the day, but the “progress wheel” only goes about 3/4 around. So, if I eat a little more or a little less, it doesn’t look like a punishment.I love the focus on grading different foods. It’s really helped me make more informed decisions about what I buy. I also like how you can see the grades of the food you’ve eaten on the main page. If I notice I’ve had a lot of processed or low grade foods, it’s a great reminder to balance it out with something healthy. My one qualm? Recipes don’t get grades too. I’d love to see the average score based on the ingredients I have in a recipe. The only workaround with this is to add the items and make it a meal. You can’t add meals ahead of time or break them into serving sizes. So if I’m making a big batch of something, I need to manually calculate the portion of each individual ingredient if I want to see the grade. My Fitness Pal does something similar already for free, but Fooducate is the overall stronger app in my opinion. Would change this to 5 stars with the addition of this feature.

OceanState91, Jul 03, 2022

Description

Since 2010, Fooducate has been helping millions of people eat healthier, lose weight and improve their health. • Recommended by doctors, dietitians, fitness trainers, and personal coaches • Apple's Best of the iPhone Health & Fitness category • 1st prize - US Surgeon General Healthy App Challenge • Media praise: USAToday, NYTimes, Dr. Oz, Oprah, WSJ, ABC, FOX, etc. THE BEST NUTRITION & HEALTH TRACKER + Log your food intake and exercise + See the quality of calories + Count your macros: protein, fats, carbs + Analyze your sugar intake + Track your sleep, mood, and hunger levels + Enter your recipes and instamagically & see their nutritional value! + Seamlessly integrated with Apple Health PERSONALIZE FOODUCATE - set your desired weight loss rate - keto diet coach - low-carb advice & carb management - lower your cholesterol, - discover foods for heart health - eat to beat diabetes - women's health (pregnancy, lactation,PCOS) - dietary goals (non processed foods, vegetarian) - avoid MSG, HFCS, GMOs and other ingredients - low FODMAP diet - Gluten free and other allergens (Note: some personalization features require a premium account) EAT FOR HEALTH!

Fooducate analyzes information found in product nutrition panels and ingredient lists. Scan to discover things manufacturers don't want you to notice: - added sugars - artificial sweeteners such as aspartame - trans fats - high fructose corn syrup - MSG - controversial food colorings - GMO - genetical modified organisms (premium feature) - additives and preservatives - and more... HUGE FOOD DATABASE + Scan hundreds of thousands of unique product barcodes + Get a personalized nutrition grade (A, B, C, or D) for each food + Get suggestions for healthier foods based on what you scan THE BEST DIET ADVICE + health & diet tips from nutrition professionals + weight loss suggestions + Motivation, love & support from the community USER REVIEWS ***** "I lost 55 pounds with this app!" ***** "Eating healthy is the easy way to lose weight. Thanks Fooducate!" ***** "I am learning so many helpful new things about healthy eating." ***** "Makes healthy food checking a breeze" ***** "Fooducate is undoubtedly the best weight loss coach I ever had." Health App integration: - import your exercise & sleep data from other apps and devices - export your meal nutrition data - calories, carbs, and more IN-APP PURCHASES: * Pro —> KETO & Low-carb diet —> Diabetes, kidney disease, heart health, and more —> Paleo, vegan, vegetarian diet —> GMO warnings —> Weekly health & diet tips —> Priority support —> No ads. Subscription options: monthly auto-renew, annual auto-renew, one-time purchase * Gluten & Allergies —> Gluten-free diet —> Uncover gluten and allergens in your food —> Choose allergen free alternatives —> Includes gluten, milk, lactose, soy, peanuts, tree nuts, eggs, fish, shellfish, sesame, and corn. —> Priority support. Subscription options: monthly auto-renew, annual auto-renew, one-time purchase * Diet Kickstart one-time purchase * Pet Food one-time purchase Notes: Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal. You can manage your subscriptions and turn off auto-renewal by going to your Account Settings after purchase. When your subscription ends, you can still use the app, without premium features --- Our terms of use: www.fooducate.com/terms Our privacy policy: www.fooducate.com/privacy Our website: www.fooducate.com Questions or feedback [email protected]