Meal Scan
BEST PRACTICES
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Make meal logging easier with Meal Scan
Meal Scan is new visual technology that acts just like your eyes, and makes food logging so much easier! Dazzle your friends by capturing your meals without needing to type a single word.
Meal Scan automatically recognizes thousands of foods and ingredients in real time, and provides uses with a faster and more engaging way to track foods and empower user's nutrition journey.
Real-Time, Keyboardless Meal Tracking
40K+
Individual Foods
& Ingredients
4K+
Food Group
Recognition
2M+
Supported Premium Users
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Get the most out of Meal Scan
On behalf of MyFitnessPal, Passio has provided a series of videos explaining some best practices and helpful tips when logging your meals. Happy Tracking!
Keep your phone moving
For better recognition, steadily adjust the distance and angle of your device while scanning.
Scanning full meals
If there are several items on your dinner plate, scan them one by one.
Packaged products
If a packaged food is sealed, scan the whole package. For example, a bag of chips or a nutrition bar.
If making a salad for example, lay out and scan each individual component before assembling it.
Lay out recipe ingredients
Closest matching alternatives
Recognition results are presented with a list of swappable alternatives. For instance, a green apple will show a list of other types of apples.
Editing serving size
Easily adjust the serving size by tapping on any of the recognized items to view the nutrition information.
Suggest food items for MFP
Use the Submit Suggestions feature to help improve Meal Scan’s recognition by submitting screenshot for less common items.
What you can’t scan
Currently, grocery store and restaurant receipts, website recipes, and cookbook pages can’t be scanned.
