Baritastic - Bariatric Tracker

Very easy to use. Keeps things well organized for me and easy to pull up and go back days to show my nutrition team. It’s nice that you can search for foods by brand as well as just in general. Love that you can create meals from entries so you can go back later to select them. But still keeps items separate so you can adjust how much of each item you consumed. Downfall is that this option doesn’t group them together either like in a different color or with a marking etc just to show that that is one selection. I use this feature when I’m combining items like meatloaf or an omelet etc. When items you are eating don’t show up in searches you can use the quick add. Great feature! Can add brand name food name and all nutrition info. I also use this when something looks off when I add it from a search. Or I’m out eating which is rare, and the food item isn’t in the searches. I can add that in and go about my day. I’ve had protein shakes from a search list the wrong calories or protein. I use the add food or meal feature so I can go back again later and the item is saved. Feature id like to see is the ability to add reminders to log food.

I’ve been using this app for about 2 1/2 years now and it’s been very helpful overall. I mainly use it to keep track of my food and water intake. Occasionally, I still use it to keep track of my weight to make sure I’m staying on track. On a sidenote, I appreciate the fact that it has other things as well such as timers, medication trackers, and even the amount of times you use the bathroom. (Helpful if you aren’t regular) In my opinion, there are two things that could be improved that would make the app perfect. The first being the addition of more fast food places and restaurants, including new menu items as they are updated. It would be nice if nutrition facts were automatically updated from the restaurant’s nutrition data. I would also like to see an improvement with the addition of food choices, when scanning or typing something in. For example, adding different brands of food items when they are scanned. I know you can add nutrition facts yourself, but if you could take a picture of the label after scanning a barcode, it would be a lot easier. By doing that it would allow someone to scan the nutrition label and automatically add it to the database for other people to use. The current way it takes too long as you have to manually enter everything in. Overall, I really love this app and it has been extremely helpful during my weight loss journey.

Overall this is one of the better tracking apps. The barcode scan works great, and if it doesn’t recognize something, will have you send a pic of the nutrition label so they can add it to their database The feature to add your own recipes needs a lot of work. Adding foods by barcode works nicely, but the portion size does not show correctly on the confirmation screen. Typing in ingredients leaves you at the mercy of their software how a food is listed in their database. For example, if you enter “Beyond Sausage”, it only “sees” sausage and calculates for that. You need to know that the database calls it “plant-based sausage, hot Italian”. I can work around those issues though. However the biggest deficiency is that once you Save a recipe to your recipes, you can never go back to edit it. Say you make meatloaf with 85/15 burger one time, but 93/7 the next. Or you decide to skip the yogurt in your usual smoothie recipe. There is no way to go back to a saved recipe and tweak the ingredients. You have to re-enter the whole recipe again. This is a dealbreaker for me, since I never cook anything the same way twice. Love the vitamin tracking for all my post surgery requirements. Make the recipe feature editable after saving and I’ll go back immediately