Choose from a database of foods or add your own, create recipes and log meals. I built it after trying various nutrition tracking apps but didn’t find anything that fit my needs.įamnom is an easy-to-use macro and micro-nutrient tracker, and meal planner. With a little bit of rudimentary ML the Cronometer folks could make the Oracle tremendously useful, but I am unsure as to why they don't do this? Lack of expertise in recsys? Cronometer folks, if you want assistance in this space I'd be happy to help just tell me what email address to email you at and we can chat. (I can't even bring myself to call it a recommender system.) I wish that I could overweight some ingredients moreso than others: if I'm short on Mg AND selenium and only have 200 cal left in my day make sure I get the selenium, Oracle! Or over- or underweight, say, protein over total calories or something. I fully agree that the Oracle is the most rudimentary 'suggestion robot' out there. I find it frustrating that there's no "globally forget" option for the Oracle, so the other day I thought of the "My Recipes" as a hack to exclude foods that I don't like from the Oracle (but I haven't yet had a chance to implement this / try this out). You know how there's the checkbox to exclude "My recipes" from the Oracles suggestions? I was debating making a recipe to act as one catch-all for all the foods that I don't like or can't tolerate and then tell the Oracle "exclude nuts, shellfish and My Recipes" and see what it suggests. I've found it to be pretty unimaginative, yes! :) It often suggests organ meats to me or omelettes with dark leafy greens.
My grandmother had me do that as a (mildly chubby) child and go to TOPS with her and it was. So as not to cause eating disorders or whatnot I obviously wouldn't make kids log their food intake. Not a parent but if I wanted to log my kids' nutrient intake and make sure that they were getting X minutes of sustained bike-riding, swimming, whatever each week it would be great to do some fitness activities together and then kick the activity log over to the kids profile. Great for parents inputting their kids info too. Shared exercise info would be great too! Let's say we go on a bike ride together: I can kick over the Exercise activity to your Cronometer account too. While I appreciate the data privacy stance of Cronometer immensely there are a few 'collaborative use' features that I wish I could opt into on Cronometer like the shared recipe feature that you mention. Oh, yeah! The 'shared recipe' feature - or even just 'Let me easily export ALL of my recipes' (for my own records or to share with a spouse or someone else that I'm cooking/preparing meals with) would be awesome! The Oracle's recommendation is made based on how many calories and various macros that you 'have left' for the day.Ĭronometer only has branded US and Canadian foods (and a few EU foods) along with 'regular' foods like "egg, boiled" or "avocado, Hass"Īt the moment, but I'm hoping that they expand to have more branded EU and Asian foods in their database! There's a very handy feature called "The Oracle" which will suggest to you a food or a recipe (you can then view the recipe's ingredients so you're not just told "Omelette with dark leafy greens" and left to wonder what the hell that contains). I continue to use Cronometer as I have a few genetic mutations that lead to my body burning through certain vitamins and other substances more quickly than folks without the mutations. So undereating by 20 - 30% of your recommended caloric needs for your height, weight, fat-to-muscle ratio, and activity level was the aim, but to do so while eating nutrient-rich foods, getting most or all of your nutrients from non-supplement form, etc. It was built for folks who were following the CRON way of eating: Caloric Restriction Optimum Nutrition. This seems like Cronometer? I've been using Cronometer for a decade plus.