Inefficient meal logging and recipe creation
💚 healthproduct problem5 reports ●●●●●
A MyFitnessPal user reports that the app lacks the ability to scan barcodes while creating custom meals and forces users to assign meals to a specific daily slot rather than saving them as reusable recipes.
What people do today
- Searching for each ingredient individually
- Assigning meals to a specific daily slot
- Manually calculating portions
🔧 Fix this
Ideas a builder, maker or community group could start on:
- Add a barcode scanner feature within the custom recipe creation interface to quickly add ingredients.
- Develop a 'Save as Recipe' workflow that allows users to store meals in a library without requiring them to be logged to a specific day.
- Create a batch-cooking calculator that allows users to input total ingredients and define the number of servings to automatically calculate per-serving nutritional data.
- A mobile app setting that allows users to bypass the summary page and default directly to the food logging screen.
- An AI-powered meal scanner tool that uses computer vision to better estimate portion sizes and identify ingredients from photos.
Real voices
“I had to search for each ingredient and then I had to choose that it was for a certain meal today, like breakfast. No, I’m not eating the whole thing today, that’s eight meals.”
“Everytime you open to log it automatically opens a summary page... it’s gets massively annoying. The meal scanner is the worst I’ve used.”
“This app keeps changing my personal settings of calories goals to their default recommended calorie. ... And the bar code scan for detecting calories often doesn’t work.”
“the “streak” celebration that I have to stop and click out of while it shoots fireworks at my eyes... the issue of when you create your own recipe and you say it serves 2 ppl but then you put olive oil and it automatically puts that your recipe calls for 1 whole gallon”
“Your arbitrary minimum 1,200 calorie requirement doesn’t make sense.”
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