Mark OttobreFounder, Enterprise Fitness · Results Driven Coaching

This app is lying to your diet

27 May 2026 · 0 min

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In this excerpt, Mark Ottobre critiques food‑tracking applications for providing inaccurate nutritional data. He contrasts MyFitnessPal, which contains hundreds of user‑generated variations for a single food item like chicken breast, with Cronometer, which uses a single, certified entry. Because users rely on these inconsistent entries, their logged intake can be wrong, leading them to unintentionally over‑eat or under‑eat.

with, uh, MyFitnessPal is, you know, it's like 200 variations of chicken breast. If you look at something like Cronometer, there's only one, has to be certified. So a lot of the times when people are tracking, they're not accurately tracking, their data is wrong. They just make choices that aren't correct because their inputs of what they think the chicken breast is is actually not what the chicken breast is, and they're way overeating or sometimes undereating.