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I really love the Fitbit app and it helps me a lot to get insights into my health. The only negative experience is the lack of a Dutch food database. Since I started counting my calories and other nutritions I hate the struggle of adding everything myself. It would be a great user experience if I could scan barcodes right away. Seriously I would be so happy and other Dutch people too. Even people from Belgium would benefit from it!
Creating a dutch food database (or any other country's database) could be easy if it was user created. So each food item should include a barcode and at least a name. Then other users could update the details over time. To ensure the accuracy each entry could be upvoted or downvoted by users (or something along these lines). In the two years FitBit have been sitting on the idea of a dutch database, it could have already been created.
I definitely would love to see a dutch database implemented. I have so many food related issues I really have to start monitoring what I eat, I just dont want to install yet another health app to do so.
Yes, please add a Dutch food database! In another post the moderator suggested to use the german one, but that's no option! Is like saying to an American to use a mexican food database. They are rather different!
I recently started using MyFitnessPal to log foods (NL) and was amazed at how the most obscure foods were already in their database, at least from where I shop (AH). It js just majorly inconvenient to be manually copying over the total calories into FitBit every mealtime. Can't FitBit just buy a copy of their database and import it?
Doesn't Fitbit realize how many Dutch and Belgian users they have? To implement a Dutch food database must be the easiest customer relationship strategy imaginable. Unfortunately after nearly 3 years it still hasn't happened. I am sorry to say that Fitbit will not be my next choice of brand.
@Klasinus I guess it’s just not profitable enough for them, and if they lose one or two customers because of it then its not a big deal to them. I know if I ran a company I would probably put people before profits with the idea that the happier the customer the more customers I would eventually get. I guess Fitbit have a different work ethic.
help log my diet and keep track of my macronutrients. Filling everything in by hand now, but this will only give me information on kcal, not on macronutrients.
The Dutch fitbit community is growing, so a lot of people would profit from an update in your food database!
When can we expect a Dutch food database? The fitbit community in the Netherlands and Belgium is growing quickly but we have to fill in our own products if we want to use the food-log function in your app. By this we can only count kcal but we can't track our macronutrients, which is very important for people with fitness or diet goals.
Using the German food database as alternative, most foods are available when searching for the brand name, other things like potatoes.. needing to find the duetsch word also for.. so that's tricky.
Being able to search in own language will make things alot better (faster logging), able to scan barcodes..
When can we expect a Dutch food database? The fitbit community in the Netherlands and Belgium is growing quickly but we have to fill in our own products if we want to use the food-log function in your app. By this we can only count kcal but we can't track our macronutrients, which is very important for people with fitness or diet goals.
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