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App Barcode scanner, brilliant

madhamey
madhamey Posts: 70 Member
edited January 25 in Health and Weight Loss
I have just read about the barcode scanner on the phone App, just tried it and it's brilliant I normally spend ages trying to find new food I eat. Now I can scan it before I open it, amazing.

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  • CAS317
    CAS317 Posts: 267 Member
    It is a great help. However, even when you scan stuff, check the reported nutritional info with what the food packaging says. I like everything to be in line and synchronous. It seems like 75% of the time the scanned information does not match the package information. It's usually just a tad bit off. Probably not enough to make too much of a difference. But it is frustrating to me. If it's not perfect then I go to searching the database until I find the correct values.
  • pkbryant28
    pkbryant28 Posts: 146 Member
    I have just read about the barcode scanner on the phone App, just tried it and it's brilliant I normally spend ages trying to find new food I eat. Now I can scan it before I open it, amazing.

    On the MFP app? If so, where is it located within the app?
  • madhamey
    madhamey Posts: 70 Member
    Go to dairy, then add food, select breakfast, then there is a sqaure with a squigly line in the top right corner this is the scanner. The barcode lines need to be like this IIIIIIII and the scanner line the opposite way.

    Thanks for that I will keep an eye out for the small differences.
  • pkbryant28
    pkbryant28 Posts: 146 Member
    Go to dairy, then add food, select breakfast, then there is a sqaure with a squigly line in the top right corner this is the scanner. The barcode lines need to be like this IIIIIIII and the scanner line the opposite way.

    Thank you ma'am!
  • hillarydemary
    hillarydemary Posts: 3 Member
    The more gadgets the better! Just tracking helps me stay on track and that barcode thing is great :-)
  • Thinnyminime
    Thinnyminime Posts: 41 Member
    The barcode reader is particularly good when you are creating a recipe or a meal that you will use over and over. For instance I have bleeped all my ingredients...flour, sugar, eggs etc and now I have them stored so it's easy to pull a recipe together.
  • Lysander666
    Lysander666 Posts: 275 Member
    I think it's really creepy.
  • Garlicmash
    Garlicmash Posts: 208
    I've used it alot cause i use the phone app alot more.
    but some things it doesn't have in the data base even if they are a big brand name and the no match comes up which is annoying.
    Or it comes up as something completely different.
  • CarmenSRT
    CarmenSRT Posts: 843 Member
    My husband got read the riot act by his doc about his ridiculously high triglycerides. He started using MFP to lose a few pounds since I already used it. He brightened up considerably when he found out he could barcode scan stuff in. :bigsmile:
  • redhead_k073
    redhead_k073 Posts: 20 Member
    It is a great help. However, even when you scan stuff, check the reported nutritional info with what the food packaging says. I like everything to be in line and synchronous. It seems like 75% of the time the scanned information does not match the package information. It's usually just a tad bit off. Probably not enough to make too much of a difference. But it is frustrating to me. If it's not perfect then I go to searching the database until I find the correct values.

    I believe sometimes MFP rounds up on numbers. For example if there is 0.5g of fat it will round it up to 1 on the app.
  • MayaSPapaya
    MayaSPapaya Posts: 735 Member
    It's great! And yeah, it usually rounds up. I usually just let it. Also sometimes I find it does come up with something completely different than what I scanned, but that is rare.
  • madhamey
    madhamey Posts: 70 Member
    I will definitely use the app more now than the computer for day to day tracking.
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