The use of a food logging app in the naturalistic setting fails to provide accurate measurements of nutrients and poses usability challenges

In the year to 2017, 78 000 new mobile health (mHealth) applications (apps) were added into major app stores, taking the total of commercially available mHealth apps to 325 000 [1]. With 603.7 million adults estimated to be obese worldwide in 2015 [2], the growth in mHealth apps reflects attempts to develop solutions to address the escalating burden of disease. Smartphone diet-tracking nutrition apps are commonplace in commercial app stores [3], with the majority being calorie counters that are marketed as tools for weight loss [4].
Source: Nutrition - Category: Nutrition Authors: Source Type: research