Do You Use The Scan Feature???????????

msmayor
msmayor Posts: 362 Member
edited September 30 in Health and Weight Loss
I love the scanning feature on MFP..... although I don't get to use it all the time because while at work I pack my lunch in containers - but this morning I scanned my entire breakfast in less than 2 minutes. I felt good that the readings were actual and it was just too easy......

Do you use the scan feature?
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  • bkelley32148
    bkelley32148 Posts: 279 Member
    yes and I love it... but it doesnt work for me all the time :0
  • mlemonroe2
    mlemonroe2 Posts: 603
    I don't know what that is??????
  • shanmont
    shanmont Posts: 66 Member
    love, love, love it!!
  • amyhoss
    amyhoss Posts: 414 Member
    It's not offered on the iPhone 3G, which is what I have so I can't use it. ;(
  • littlerjh
    littlerjh Posts: 11 Member
    I'm new to MFP, what is scanning feature?
  • Saruman_w
    Saruman_w Posts: 1,531 Member
    I don't know what that is??????

    The MFP app for the phone, let's you scan barcodes and stuff to grab the nutritional info. It's on the Android, dunno how different iPhone is.
  • forever28
    forever28 Posts: 374 Member
    Yep! Fellow Droid user and I LOVE the scanning option! Makes logging food way easy & so fast! I love MFP!
  • homeport51
    homeport51 Posts: 198 Member
    Love, love, LOVE the scan feature! I used it every chance I get. Ain't technology grand?
  • cass89
    cass89 Posts: 198 Member
    YES AND LOVE IT!! OMG MAKES LOGGING SO MUCH EASIER

    for those who aren't aware, the scanning feature is on the 'smart phone' app. and you use the camera on the phone and scan it over the barcode and it automatically tells u all the nutritional information and logs it for you. it's amazing! saves so much time and searching! and so accurate!
  • snikles
    snikles Posts: 5 Member
    Yes! It's the reason I choose to use MFP! So easy!
  • plantgrrl
    plantgrrl Posts: 436 Member
    mlemonroe2 on the phone app there is a button where you can scan the barcode of the food item and it will autolog it for you--alls you need to do is put the amount in. It's pretty sweet when it works!

    I love the scan! (of course it doesn't work if you're cooking from scratch...but it's pretty great.

    It was the darnedest then though, the other day I scanned a can of soda and it told me it was "twizzlers." I was so confused I tried again with the same result--MFP I don't even LIKE twizzlers. I had to look that one up by hand...I think scan is still a little "beta." But once a few kinks get worked out--it's gonna rock!
  • LittleMissAlx
    LittleMissAlx Posts: 291 Member
    It's awesome! I'm on an android so have had it a while, but my boyfriend just upgraded his mfp on his iphone, and that has the scanning thing on too apparently. Do find not everything comes up and so something you have to search manually, but it's just the novelty of it as well!
  • 481471
    481471 Posts: 95
    not aware of it on my blackberry :(
    damn that would be a fab feature!
  • tuneses
    tuneses Posts: 467 Member
    Love it :)
  • cltrapp58
    cltrapp58 Posts: 3
    I love this feature. Save a lot of time! Someone was really thinking when they add this feature!
  • BlueAventer
    BlueAventer Posts: 129
    Yes, and I LOVE it! So helpful!
  • End6ame
    End6ame Posts: 903
    I personally think that the scanning feature promotes less healthy eating (not necessarily unhealthy though). For example, fresh produce, meats, and fish don’t have barcodes.
  • mstcass
    mstcass Posts: 63 Member
    I love it. I have the iPhone 3Gs
  • theseagull
    theseagull Posts: 181 Member
    It's a good feature but it's only for backed food ... not for fresh or cooked food !
  • 28mgoudy
    28mgoudy Posts: 1
    I have a blackberry and I can not get it to work it always says I need to try again and hold 6 to 8 inches but it still wont work.
    My husband uses it on his phone (he does not have a black berry) and loves it. I had him try my phone and he can not get it to work either. Does any one else use a blackberry
  • notebelow
    notebelow Posts: 18 Member
    I personally think that the scanning feature promotes less healthy eating (not necessarily unhealthy though). For example, fresh produce, meats, and fish don’t have barcodes.

    Not really; items like that are easier to find manually where as different types of packaged foods often have multiple differences from previous versions with different nutritional values so the scanner makes it easier in those situations.
    It also localises it so when you search for something like chips you don't end up with a whole bunch of american crisp results. I love the scanner, it really does make it easier (and a little more fun) to put in your food intake, it helps you to remember to do it as well because of its novelty.
  • melsinct
    melsinct Posts: 3,512 Member
    I would say 9 times out of 10 the bar code scanner doesn't work for me. It either doesn't recognize the item or it comes up with the wrong item (e.g. I scan bread, it comes up with yogurt). I have given up on it.
  • End6ame
    End6ame Posts: 903
    I personally think that the scanning feature promotes less healthy eating (not necessarily unhealthy though). For example, fresh produce, meats, and fish don’t have barcodes.

    Not really; items like that are easier to find manually where as different types of packaged foods often have multiple differences from previous versions with different nutritional values so the scanner makes it easier in those situations.
    It also localises it so when you search for something like chips you don't end up with a whole bunch of american crisp results. I love the scanner, it really does make it easier (and a little more fun) to put in your food intake, it helps you to remember to do it as well because of its novelty.

    Maybe it is just me then. But everything that I eat that is packaged (very few things) is already in my “recent” or “most used list”, so it doesn’t make sense to scan it.
  • msmayor
    msmayor Posts: 362 Member
    It's a allows you to scan the barcodes of food packages on your phone - I have a iphone4 and I scanned my entire breakfast today....
  • hbrekkaas
    hbrekkaas Posts: 268 Member
    I'll have to check out my phone and see if I have it, I doubt it because I've never noticed it, but who knows. Not that I would use it often, besides cheese, pretzels, and yogurt I don't really eat anything packaged.
  • msmayor
    msmayor Posts: 362 Member
    I personally think that the scanning feature promotes less healthy eating (not necessarily unhealthy though). For example, fresh produce, meats, and fish don’t have barcodes.

    Not really; items like that are easier to find manually where as different types of packaged foods often have multiple differences from previous versions with different nutritional values so the scanner makes it easier in those situations.
    It also localises it so when you search for something like chips you don't end up with a whole bunch of american crisp results. I love the scanner, it really does make it easier (and a little more fun) to put in your food intake, it helps you to remember to do it as well because of its novelty.

    I so agree!!!
  • ruthcooper
    ruthcooper Posts: 22 Member
    It is there now for the iphone 3G....new, love it. SO quick and easy.
  • msiamjan
    msiamjan Posts: 326 Member
    Yup, got it with the most recent update for the i-phone. I like it.
  • stevwil41
    stevwil41 Posts: 608 Member
    I think it's awesome!!
  • cltrapp58
    cltrapp58 Posts: 3
    Love, love, love the scan feature. Wish there were barcodes on menus! Wouldn't that make life easier?!?!?!?
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