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Food Insights

AspiringCatLady
AspiringCatLady Posts: 1 Member
in MyFitnessPal Tech Support Questions
The food insights in the weekly digest doesn't seem to be working. It is not calculating the items correctly or maybe I don't understand it. Is there more documentation on this?

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  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 35,485 Member
    It's still beta status, which means it's been rolled out, but still sort of being tested. I think the issue is that it just doesn't work very well yet.

    Even in the long run, I'm skeptical it actually has enough information to do this well, honestly, no matter how good the code is.

    For example, February 10-16, it says I logged seven vegetables. That's hilarious.

    On the first day, some vegetables I ate were in mudjadara. Does it even know that contains vegetables, let alone how many? I logged cabbage salad. Is that one veggie, or more? MFP doesn't know the recipe.
    Better yet, I logged "Stir Fry Vegetables". How many vegetables is that? How would MFP know? And that's just day 1.

    I've rough-counted the number of different vegetables I eat in a typical week, and it's way more than 7. Many of them have counting complexities like the ones I mentioned above. Even if they're using AI functions to count, there are going to be limitations. If I log "Granny's Favorite Casserole" without inputting a detailed recipe, there's no way they're going to know if that's veggies, or chicken with cheese.

    I started hand counting the week mentioned above, and even when counting things like "stir fry vegetables" as one vegetable, I got to seven different vegetables by day 2. There were more - and not the same ones, either - later in the week.

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