Popular Nutrition-Related Mobile Apps: An Agreement Assessment Against a UK Reference Method.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Nutrition-related apps are commonly used to provide information about the user's dietary intake, but limited research has been performed to assess how well their outputs agree with those from standard methods.

Objective

The objective of our study was to evaluate the level of agreement of popular nutrition-related apps for the assessment of energy and available macronutrients and micronutrients against a UK reference method.

Methods

We compared dietary analysis of 24-hour weighed food records (n=20) between 5 nutrition-related apps (Samsung Health, MyFitnessPal, FatSecret, Noom Coach, and Lose It!) and Dietplan6 (reference method), using app versions available in the United Kingdom. We compared estimates of energy, macronutrients (carbohydrate, protein, fat,

SUBMITTER: Fallaize R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6401676 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature