I’ve been using myfitnesspal for a long while, which has a an alright coverage of Japanese products (Japan based SKUs). But, for a few reasons, I’m jumping ship and looking for alternative nutrition trackers that are well liked and cover the Japan market. Huge bonus if the interface is in English.
Got any recommendations? I want to use Cronometer, but it has poor Japanese product coverage.
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Following since I heard MFP is planning on locking the scanner behind a premium subscription in October.
**Lose it!** is what I use. I really like how the tracking system has a week-to-week system, as it really helps putting days where you go over your calorie goals in context. Also keeps a running list of “your foods” which makes it -super- easy to log the same foods, or even the same entire meals!
The JP product coverage isn’t amazing, but it’s good enough for me, and manually adding foods is honestly pretty simple once you realize:
a LOT of JP foods have nutrition info listed in increments of 100. Your soda isn’t 40 calories per bottle, it’s 40 calories per 100ml, of which there are 500ml, etc.
recognizing the kanji for fat, protein, and carbs is pretty straightforward. Sugar isn’t listed separately in most cases as it’s part of the carbs (if it is it’ll typically be below carbs.)
For most chain restaurants or convenience stores, it’s pretty easy to dig up the nutritional info online as well (I go to 7/11 a lot, so I have to grab the info the first time from the website for stuff from the hot case.)
あすけん is popular around me.