The relative validity of a food record using the smartphone application MyFitnessPal.

Victor H S TeixeiraSilvia M VociRaquel S Mendes-NettoDanielle G da Silva

Published in: Nutrition & dietetics: the journal of the Dietitians Association of Australia (2017)

MFP tends to underestimate ingestion of nutrients probably due to inadequacies in the MFP database. However, MFP showed good relative validity, especially for energy and fibre. Its use, as well as other similar applications, should be encouraged, due to ease of assessing dietary information, although careful usage is recommended because of database gaps.

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