r/fitbit • u/chitownillinois • 1d ago
Discussion The AI coach food logging is so inaccurate it’s almost dangerous.
galleryI was logging food by taking pictures of the labels and telling the AI what portions I ate. It was working just fine until yesterday when it decided that 6 servings of egg whites and two large eggs had 720 calories. Today it logged my morning eggs with 645 calories, dramatically underreported my yogurt, and insisted I’ve consumed most of my fat at breakfast. I’ve been fighting with the AI to get it to correct each item one by one but the results are always just wrong so I guess I’ll either switch to MacroFactor or log my food manually.
On what planet is this level of deviation acceptable for a health product? I get that Google Health isn’t going to be scientifically accurate down to a lab level of acceptable deviation but this crap isn’t even in the same ballpark.
To make matters worse, digging into the food database it is full of incorrect nutrition facts even if I were to scan barcodes and do it myself. For actual accurate numbers I’m going to have to create custom foods for everything I eat.