UK food database

[MattGumbley]

Hi, enjoying my Flex/iOS app so far - do you have plans to develop a UK foods database?

Thanks!

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[KayH]

I would loved to have a UK food database.

Using the US one is really hard and have to change things manually all the time

Pretty please could you add one. 

K

[xurizaemon]

First of all: the US food database is scary!

Supporting generic food data better would be a huge improvement. I'm in NZ, and if this thread has got only 30 votes (small button top left of thread if you missed it) for a UK food DB  then people from other countries shouldn't be expecting any action from Fitbit soon.

I will be recommending other options to friends until Fitbit engage this - a pity since this missing feature is what makes an otherwise rewarding product quite frustrating to use.

[bertieb]

I agree. I live in Germany and the fatsecret database is much more useful to me with the barcode integration. It is really suprising to find neither company has wants to link their products.

[Debs66]

PLease, please, p[lease can you add a UK food database? And a link with the WW app would be even better!

[Phil1927]

Another request for a UK database.  Surely the demand is big enough?

I'd give up myfitnesspal altogether if you had the UK food sorted

[Box]

It would be much easier to follow diet with a British food and restaurant list. Can this be done please.

[JoeyHext]

There is no food database for the UK. It might be that there aren't enough Fitbit busers yet in the UK to warrant it but it's so annoying when i want to barcode scan an item, for example and there's no database, I have to find some approximation from the US database.

[Barbie2]

Same remark for Netherlands!

I bought my Fitbit yesterday in the Netherlands but I can't chose Netherlands neither in the country list nor in the food database. I picked Germany but then everything is written in German and food database is in German (my German is not that good).

If I pick UK or France, same story. So, if you sell your products in a country, make sure that it can be used properly in that country.

Maybe you can combine Netherlands and Belgium, as a compromise.... 

[SunsetRunner]

Yes please. Trying go use American but not very successful. Love everything else.

[Wynne]

I second the requirement to increase the nationality selection.

I do not live in the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy or Spain.  I live in Ireland.  At the very least, change it to 'United Kingdom and Ireland' - since the USA and Canada are treated link that.

[Duds]

YES PLEASE!

[KimberleyS]

+1. 

Really surpised it doens't have one already and from the comments it seems it's been a long time coming? How come no UK database? Although, it also seems from the comments that there are no officials reading this thread. Not very impressed by that as a new customer as of today. 

[mw526]

please add UK food database.

[robdea]

i would like a uk food database. which would make things quicker and easier

[Faethe]

Please can we have a UK food database. I bought my fitbit 4 days ago and am shocked that there is no UK database. This item has been available in the UK for ages so why no database for us? 

[Jax48]

Another vote for a UK Food database.  Surely it is no too much to ask

[SunsetRunner]

I realise that it's been asked for a lot of times but theres never been a response. It would be really helpful if there was a database for the UK.

[rayw47]

I agree totally.

I guess no reply means Fitbit have no interest in UK customers.

There are UK food databases out there. 'Fat Secret' Android App has a great one which includes UK supermarket brands, restaurants and chains, popular brands and even a bar code scanner. So why not integrate it?

Seems to me that we are treated badly.

[Rich_Laue]

Yes I have seen many discussions on this topic, but since it only has 1 vote it doesn't look an option many people want..

I suggest when you see any posting about the UK food put a link here.

This way it will get votes and then get the Fitbit's developers attention.

It is the votes not the suggestion that count!

[sps65]

It would be really helpful if there was a database for the UK.

[MartV]

Having to switch between MyFitness Pal and Fitbit apps to record food eaten and then see the impact in my calories allowance in Fitbit is extremely annoying - please listen to your UK customers without making them go through the hoops of having to go to a special place in the Internet to vote.

[traggarth]

Yes please! just bought my fitbit flex and the US food database is of no use for me. im from Norway but a UK database would help ALOT

[ChelleBelle]

Yes agree. Same here from Australia. It makes the calorie counters useless at the moment and all one can do is guess and hope it is a like product. Maybe this already exists and I haven't found it yet...still exploring but this would make it heaps better and more accurate. Thanks

[SunsetRunner]

This definitely should be one of the next things to go live - MyFitnessPal is good but syncing between the two is not always perfect and food eaten shows up in FitBit just as calories, not actual meals. Thanks 🙂

[plxxthsddr]

I feel cheated that we are stuck with US only food database. Until we get a UK database, I cannot recommend this to anyone and I will not buy another Fitbit device.