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‎03-03-2014 20:48

‎03-03-2014 20:48

So i just bought my fitbit yesterday (In Australia). Does anyone know why it doesnt have an option to barcode scan the foods you eat like the My Fitness Pal app? It would be soooooo much easier then having to work out all the stuff yourself to the point i cant be bothered even loging a food report because the time it takes is too long. 

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‎03-04-2014 04:38

‎03-04-2014 04:38

Hi, 

@Triskele wrote:

So i just bought my fitbit yesterday (In Australia). Does anyone know why it doesnt have an option to barcode scan the foods you eat like the My Fitness Pal app? It would be soooooo much easier then having to work out all the stuff yourself to the point i cant be bothered even loging a food report because the time it takes is too long. 


Why don't you just sync your MFP and Fitbit apps? That's what I do. Then you can scan foods in MFP and the results appear automatically in the Fitbit app.

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‎03-04-2014 11:21

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‎03-04-2014 11:21

And the food database with MFP is significatnly larger than Fitbit's. I use the barcode scanner occassionaly with MFP, synced to Fitbit, and it works wonderfully. The only thing I don't necessarily like is that MFP info shows up as summaries in the Fitbit log instead of the individual foods.

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‎03-04-2014 15:31

‎03-04-2014 15:31

While syncing may work, they have the easiest solution already.  Since they already have integeration with Google to do authenticatoin via Google+ / GMail, why not use google to return the nutritional information for that barcode.  "Google Shopper" does this already for many things and this shouldn't be a huge stretch from a technology perspective.

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