alt Hacker NewsAt Bitesnap we were surprised at how much interest there was from researchers to use our app for diet tracking. It turns out giving people a piece of paper to write “grilled cheese sandwich for lunch” is not a scalable and reliable way to collect research quality data.
We even worked with USDA on putting together a food logging dataset: https://agdatacommons.nal.usda.gov/articles/dataset/SNAPMe_A...
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What happened to your app? I was on such a research team (Scripps) that used your app for the study (PROGRESS).
This doesn't surprise me.
Just trying to keep track of calories for myself stupid things like supersized slices of bread becoming common in stores can really throw off my expected calorie counts.
It seems like this can completely throw off any attempt at figuring out nutrition from an app or research perspective.
We've also been surprised at SnapCalorie how many researchers have approached us to use the app for more accurate diet tracking for medical study participants. The LiDAR based portion size has been a huge draw for them.
If anyone wants to check out our app or research its on our site: https://www.snapcalorie.com/
PS: Bitesnap was an awesome app!