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USDA recommends 6 servings of grains, 5 servings of fruits and vegetables, etc. so just like tracking water, add a section that lets you track # of servings/group Ex. today I ate a side salad and a fruit and the rest was meat, fat & sugar. I would have 1 fruit and 2 vegetable servings. If I hadn't changed the USDA goal I'd be under. ... View more

I love the food tracking program, but losing weight can a diet that contains too much saturated fat or any trans fat is unhealthy. Can a feature be added to nutritional tracking to break down fat into how much saturated, trans polyunsaturated, and monounsaturated fats and add cholesterol and fiber tracking as well? All are vital to good health.    Moderator Edit: Clarified subject ... View more

Just a suggestion. Not everyone is on a weight loss program based on caloric intake. You should give the setup option for Atkins, keto, weight watchers,  low fat etcetera. Would really be advantageous   Moderator edit: Subject for clarity and labels. ... View more

Bring back the macros pie chart for fat carbs and protein percentages   Moderator Edit: Clarified subject ... View more

Hello all,   My wife and I would like to suggest the following feature concept.   Modify the water and food "icons" on the fitbit watches to be "tapable." (not sure that's a word) This would allow the following functionality:   Allow users to tap the water icon on the watch directly to "count" for a fitbit app preset # oz onces. The Oz per tap would be settable from the Fitbit app somewhere under the drink and food section.   For example, I would use the fitbit app under the water/food section to set my watch for 8oz of water per tap. Then when I drink a "glass" (8 oz) of water worth I could just scroll and tap the water icon on my watch once. If I drank a 16oz glass for example, I would tap twice. That amount would be added to my water total for the day.   User's could select another "unit" through the fitbit mobile app, say 2oz or 4oz for kids, etc.   The food/meal function would work similar. I could say tap the food/meal icon on my watch (preset it for say 200 calories per tap),then I would say eat a 800 calorie meal. I would just tap it 4 times. So if I'm in a hurry I don't have take time to hunt through my fitbit app looking for the meal item and logging it in my phone. I could just eat, tap, and go on the run.   They would not be exact but provide me easy logging of my water and meal intake. Hope you take this into consideration as would be super useful to us at least.   Thanks,   KC   Moderator edit: Subject for clarity ... View more

Add tools (weekly graph or something else) to track daily intake for "caffeine, salt, sugar, cholesterol, saturated fat and trans fat" since it is recommended to limit the amount of those taken each day.   Moderator Edit: Clarified subject ... View more

For some reason the app defaults to maintenance when trying to input a weight gain goal. It would be great to see weight gain being supported. In relation to this...it would be amazing to say I want to be in a 10% surplus or 10% deficit to keep things dynamic. Macros % goals on would be the cherry on top of everything. ... View more

The food log should always allowed edit! Even if it’s not our own food! We should be able to edit every aspect instead of always needed to add a new one! And if it’s pre-log info if we were able to edit the info it would be awesome. There’s a lot of app doing that it would be nice if it was the same thing for fitbit!   Moderator Edit: Clarified subject and updated label ... View more

Hello Fitbit people 🙂   Why is the food database have such poor content?   I regularly travel between the UK and Russia and have found that the food database is not perfect for the UK and non-existent for Russia. Even in the countries I stop it in between UK and RU don't have a good food database.   As a result of this I've started using myfitnesspal to log my foods as so far it is 100% perfect.   Examples: Last weekend I went to McDonalds in Moscow and had a Greek Mac. Does this exist in the Fitbit database? No. Does it exist in the myfitnesspal database? Yes, there is even a Belgian variant listed! Recently I had a box of 3 KFC Chicken Strips. Does KFC Chicken Strips exist in the Fitbit database? No. Does it exist in the myfitnesspal database? Yes it does. Come on Fitbit people, you sell fitness trackers and calorie counting is a huge part of that process. myfitnesspal don't and yet they can afford a much MUCH better food database.   Find out where they got their database from and buy and impliment the same. Please   Moderator's edit: Labels ... View more

Hi! I just recently bought a fitbit versa and I love it, but I'm missing a food database for Switzerland. I tried Germany, but its not really the same thing, lots of things missing. Would be great if this happens anytime soon. I love to to track my food better.   Thank you!   Moderator edit: updated label ... View more

You should be able to choose a food plan than requires weight/muscle main that requires a calorie surplus. You should be able to enter goal calories not deficit goal cals. Only an available is weight loss or maintainance. Also to be able to manually put in your BMR as fitbit drastically under estimates mine making mine very invalid. ... View more

my grocery store has recently changed the yogurt i eat almost every morning and now the calorie count is 20 calories less that it was before (along with ingredient changed)...it would be nice to be able to override or submit to fitbit the new ingredients and technical numbers so that my food/calorie/protein ect intake matches fitbit inputs ... View more

As someone who eats a lot of different ethnic foods, I have been really struggling using the Fitbit calorie count on the app. Couldn’t you guys allow for people to input and save recipes that the app could count calories  and macros for using your existing database? Also, as someone with a family history of high BP and other medical issues, I think that the option to count sodium intake, or fat types or vitamins would be awesome. Because right now I’m essentially using multiple apps to do these things and if Fitbit had it all that would really give the app an edge over competitors. ... View more

Add tools (weekly graph or something else) to track daily intake for "caffeine, salt, sugar, cholesterol, saturated fat and trans fat" since it is recommended to limit the amount of those taken each day.   Moderator Edit: Clarified subject ... View more

I'd love to see an option for food/nutrition tracking where calories aren't the sole motivator.  I know there are displays for other nutrient values such as protein, carbs, sugar, etc, but none can be made the spotlight, and speaking for myself I don't worry about calorie limits each day anywhere near as much as I'm concerned with protein minimums.   I'd love to see a customization available where a user can show what their daily goal would be, either a min/max situation and for what nutritional value.  For instance, I'd like to set a target of 80g of protein a day, and watch as I climb to that goal with each meal; for now I'd have to enter my food and then look at sub-info to get the protein, and glancing at my dashboard (especially on mobile) wouldn't tell me how far I've got to go so I can plan accordingly for the rest of the day.   Calories are important, but they're not the only thing to worry about when it comes to fitness.  Can we show some attention to the other things that are considered important to many people? 🙂 ... View more

I want to be able to input my specific daily calorie goal based on my medical weight management program recommendation.  My daily calorie goal is adjusted by the weight management MD during the weight loss process, and the calorie deficit is based on our tested Base Metabolic Rate from which our daily calorie deficit is determined. It is not helpful having fitbit decide how many calories a day I should be consuming and the tracking based fitbit's idea of my daily calorie goal, rather the the goal prescribed my physician. Please create the ability to allow a member to set their own daily calorie goal. This would greatly increase the meaningfullness of fitbit tracking of my activity, calories consumed and burned, etc.  As it is now, I am finding the app fairly meaningless other then for tracking steps and sleep quality. ... View more

When you scan a food package barcode all nutrition label information should be uploaded. I have noticed potassium is missed on almost all entries. ... View more

Image recognition technology should be utilized by the food logging portion of the app to log food faster. A user would be able to use the camera in-app, much like for the barcode scanner, but instead by taking a picture of the actual food and having the app identify the food or foods that it is/could be. ... View more

I currently changed my diet from meat based to vegetarian and I’m a premium user 😊 It would be cool if the suggestions of food would be more targeted to my profile 🤗   Moderator Edit: Clarified subject ... View more

I searched for blueberries and the only ones that came up were frozen or processed as a pie or a muffin, or canned, there was nothing for fresh and raw (the healthiest way of eating them). I suggest having the food database be complete with every fruit and vegetable in their raw and fresh format listed.   Moderator Edit: Clarified subject ... View more

The iOS/iPadOS has a "preciously eaten with" food suggestion, where after having selected your first food, "previously eaten with" other foods are offered. Could you bring this to Android? Note to moderator: This is not an existing feature. Not the same as frequent/recent/custom/my foods.   Moderator Edit: Clarified subject ... View more

fitbit is a great app and personally it has helped me in the last couple of weeks really well. But something I’ve been struggling with is to log my food correctly as the options presented is very minimal. My suggestion would be to try and expand the range you cater to, especially to the Asians. I understand the difficulties it poses, but since the Fitbit community is expanding all over the world this would prove to be useful. Living in Sri Lanka, I find it very difficult to find the correct/something close to what I eat. For example, MyFitnessPal App has the ranges of food in Sri Lanka as well and it makes it much easier and I know what I’m entering is right and isn’t entering extra calories. This would be really helpful and would make so many lives easier! Thank you so so much for taking your time and reading it! Looking forward to future changes! ☺️   Moderator edit: Updated subject for clarity. ... View more

I want to be able to just enter the number of calories I ate, and a name/label for the food instead of needing to look up the food in the overwhelming database.  The Quick Calories feature on Android is CLOSE, but doesn't let you label the food.    The reason I want this is that my most common use case is that I just want to use Fitbit as a food journal to track calories in vs calories out. I do NOT want to use it to "look up how many calories are in this" or calculate macros.  Most times I already know the number of calories I ate (because it's literally printed on the label of the food in my hand), and I just want to write it down.   Currently, accomplishing this task is frustrating. I have the name of the food, and the calories... but in order to get this information into my Fitbit log, I have to search for the food, find a version of the food that is approximately the number of calories I need to log, or is in units that I can easily customize until I reach the calories I need to log. On Android, I can adjust the amount until I reach the calories I want to log.  That's still too many steps if I just want to quickly write down the name and the calories.   On the website it's even worse... On the website, there isn't a Quick Calories option at all.  The ONLY way to add calories to the log is overly complicated.  You have to search for the food, find a version that is approximately the right calories in the drop-down menu, and then you have to guess/adjust the serving size or weight... which is information you might not even have....  So my workaround is often to just log the smallest unit (like 1oz) and then adjust it using the +/- labels later.  The website doesn't currently let you SEE how many calories it is until after I log the food, which means I always have to adjust it manually EVEN THOUGH I already know the number of calories. If my guess at the serving size was wrong and the calories calculated isn't close enough to what I want to enter, and the +/- is the wrong units or won't increment/decrement, I have to delete the entry and try again. This is sooo frustrating when I just want to enter the name and the number of calories and be done.    This is not a good workflow for a VERY COMMON use case (user knows the food name and the calories already and just wants to write it in the log).   Again, the tl;dr: The Quick Calories feature in the Android app is ALMOST what I want (and I want it on both the website and on Android). I want that feature to just also allow you to label the food. If the Quick Calories feature included a field to "name" it, it would be perfect.    Moderator edit: updated subject for clarity ... View more

Though I eventually tried and got good tech support help, I had a terrible time finding fresh mint on the diet log. Because real foods don't have a brand, they get buried behind foods flavored with them, of which there are probably hundreds if not thousands. I tried "Mint, spearmint, raw," "Mint, spearmint, fresh" and others. This problem persisted even after I researched and added the nutritional information for the food myself, and thus had an exact name for it. Why Breath Savers and Trident came up before an exact name, I don't know.   While tech support suggested I use the term "Spearmint" as the first word, this was not the most logical place to start. For one thing, I didn't actually eat spearmint, but a variety called "Chocolate Mint" which was doomed to bring up listings for foods like ice cream, thus I was looking for a similar, not an exact food. Plus, usually the noun is usually listed before the descriptor in the database, which is how one usually deals with the limitations of the database such as the limited varieties of mint listed. The only reason I could see for it to be listed differently in this case was because of this problem of candies and ice cream coming up first, but only the engineers would know the problem and thus workaround instinctively.   Thus please either give real foods priority in the list, a designation similar to a brand name, and/or at least make an exact name search come up before others (I'm confused why this last one wouldn't always be the case).   Thanks. ... View more

I found the food summary where the total sugar is listed but the pie chart summary only lists carbs, fat and protein. Sugar needs to be included as a nutritional fact percentage, not just a summary.   Moderator Edit: Clarified subject ... View more