Help about the adding nutritional information

anarebelo87
anarebelo87 Posts: 1 Member
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I’m new to this and I do want to do premium but I want to know if food doesn’t scan can o add my own nutritional information to calculate the calories of the food. Does this only work in premium? Thank you

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  • Lietchi
    Lietchi Posts: 6,975 Member
    The only thing premium gives you extra for adding food is the barcode scanner and, I believe, the possibility to add timestamps. As for creating foods and searching the food database manually, that's possible in the free version too.
    I would recommend searching the food database manually first for an entry with the correct nutritional values before creating foods, the food database is huge already.

    Depending on where you live, the barcode scanner may or may not be worth the money. I often get zero results, and then I have to search manually anyway. Or I get a different food entirely, so I have to search manually anyway. Or I get the correct food with incorrect nutritional values - I then use the 'report this food' option to correct and (most importantly) save the food to My Foods.
    I'm in Belgium, I think the barcode scanner gives slightly better results in larger (Anglo-Saxon) countries like the US.

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