Global Food Database Improvements
planned (soon)
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Thomas Baracco
Bevel already supports portion-based logging, which is great. The problem is that many foods — especially unverified entries added by other users — don't have any portions defined, so the only option is to log them by weight in grams. For foods that come in discrete pieces (e.g. biscuits), this makes logging slow and imprecise, since I have to guess or weigh the grams instead of simply logging "1 biscuit."
There's already a "report a problem" option, but the form is too generic. Instead, I'd like to be able to suggest the specific fix directly, for example:
- Adding a missing portion type to a food (e.g. "1 piece", "1 slice", "1 cup")
- Manually correcting values such as calories or other nutrients
Letting users contribute these fixes directly would speed up logging and gradually improve the quality of the food database, particularly for unverified entries.
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Jason Sjöbeck
I wonder if the foods database has any hygiene routines, what I mean by that is that once a week food comes up with such a large number for something (2000 of sodium, or 600 for caffeine, et cetera) that those numbers are not possible. There are obvious data entry errors in the database that an automated type of scan would easily catch. I read that numerous refinements are being done, added, but it is equally important to clean the obvious errors. Thank you for the solid work here. Be very very well. -Sjo
CL Topliff
Add Cook Unity to te mix
Tessa Moore
I find them to be pretty consistent with the food labels for Frive but it doesn't read the ingredients properly and will often add or omit things incorrectly. For example - a chicken and veg curry won't give points for having vegetables in it...
Leah
Merged in a post:
Remember custom nutrition information
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Anurudth Binu
Sometimes when you scan a barcode On an item the nutritional info is sometimes wrong, it might show 0 cal Or it won’t record the protein, carbohydrates, fats value. If I go in and manually change those values then I think for next time for quicker and easier user experience, if I scan the same barcode again, it should pull up my new custom nutritional information
Leah
Hi Anurudth Binu Can you please report these foods? We are actively working on improving our database.
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Nicolas GOLLIER
Same request to integrate French databases. Other applications now allow you to select the one you want.
Leah
Merged in a post:
Extensive food database + crowd sourced information
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Charles Kevin Lim
I used to use cronometer. It has a pretty extensive database of food. There's even an option wherein if the bar code isn't found. You can take photos of the code. Label. And nutritional information to further improve the database. Would love for bevel to be the same! Along with the extensive database. Let the community work for you by adding their own too!
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Charles Kevin Lim
I used to use cronometer. It has a pretty extensive database of food. There's even an option wherein if the bar code isn't found. You can take photos of the code. Label. And nutritional information to further improve the database. Would love for bevel to be the same! Along with the extensive database. Let the community work for you by adding their own too!
Leah
Merged in a post:
Food Tracking Accuracy Issues
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Domenic Groß
Unfortunately, I have real problems tracking my food if I don't have a barcode at hand. When entering, for example Müllermilch type Lemon Cheescake, the system only finds “Müllermilch” - no longer. That is not the same. In general, I also think that the database is not very “complete”. I fundamentally understand that not all PLUs can be stored. But it can't be that I “don't 100% trust” Bevel when tracking my food and have to “track/check” whether the macros match with another market-leading app. This should be improved urgently, please.
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