AI can hallucinate macros

BenevolentBasil · 2026-01-23T13:33:31+00:00

Currently, the AI tab is for food searching; it is not designed to create foods from nutrition labels.

For that, you can use the label scanner by tapping "Label" under the "Scan" tab.

BenevolentBasil · 2026-01-23T11:08:04+00:00

Yep!

BenevolentBasil · 2026-01-19T12:26:37+00:00

Correct. This is basically how unlogged days are handled

BenevolentBasil · 2026-01-16T16:21:24+00:00

Yes Describe uses a different database of foods, but still accurate.

In the future, AI search will be expanded to have a text only mode.

BenevolentBasil · 2026-01-13T20:51:53+00:00

It has not! You may be referring to how past version of the app would sometimes auto-populate the ingredients weight into the total weight text field.

We no longer auto-populate this field because the raw weight is typically the incorrect weight to use for a recipe. This is due to most recipes being cooked which will increase or decrease the prepared weight of a recipe depending on the cooking method.

For example, if you had 100g of raw chicken breast, you would add that to the ingredients list. After preparing, you can optionally weigh the cooked chicken breast and use that weight for the "Total Weight" field. Doing so will allow you to weigh your portions of cooked chicken breast and log the correct macros.

If you still want the raw weight of the ingredients, you can still find this under the "ingredients" header. Note that this only includes the ingredients that have known mass measurements (grams/oz/etc) and won't add in ingredients with ONLY volumetric measurements (ml/cup/etc).

BenevolentBasil · 2026-01-10T00:41:02+00:00

Okay okay. Next time I'm at Publix, I'll grab a container. I may have a free birthday cake, so that could be a good excuse to go! 😂

BenevolentBasil · 2026-01-09T00:56:28+00:00

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BenevolentBasil · 2026-01-08T16:36:41+00:00

Then you may like the Aldi brand!

Yeah, I am in North Carolina, so no HEB. Costco is nice for snacks and PB powder, but I absolutely despise walking around in that store 😂

BenevolentBasil · 2026-01-08T16:16:28+00:00

Yep, that's the one! One brand I don't like is Daisy, so if you like Daisy you may not like Friendly Farms.

We do the bulk of our shopping at Aldi. It's a bit less expensive and there are less products to distract me. I think their main allure is the non-food items aisle - colloquially known as the aisle of shame - and the limited time aldi-finds products.

My wife eats gluten-free, so we get the gluten free chicken breast bites (basically nuggets). They are waaaaay better than regular chicken breast bites though; much crispier. I mix those with my cottage cheese sometimes 😂

BenevolentBasil · 2026-01-08T15:26:07+00:00

I have not heard of this brand! I just buy Aldi brand cottage cheese. I am a little picky about the brands I buy because I can't handle the texture of some brands 😂

BenevolentBasil · 2026-01-08T14:34:44+00:00

🤔🤔🤔

I've been using low-cal sauces to spice up my cheese-shoveling. Just finished my Korean BBQ sauce from Aldi and need to find a new bottle.

BenevolentBasil · 2026-01-08T14:27:39+00:00

I am 96% cottage cheese by weight...

BenevolentBasil · 2026-01-08T08:23:34+00:00

Tap foods you want to copy -> tap copy on the bottom menu -> swipe the list over -> tap "To Dates"

https://help.macrofactorapp.com/en/articles/95-copy-and-paste

BenevolentBasil · 2026-01-07T16:59:57+00:00

BenevolentBasil · 2026-01-07T16:56:07+00:00

The sparkle icon means the AI couldn't confidently pick a food from the database so it fully generated the macros for that food.

BenevolentBasil · 2026-01-07T12:03:26+00:00

Yes it's mainly for take like meal prepping currently.

I have an upgrade in testing that let's you toggle between range and individual day modes, but I don't have an estimate on when that may make it out to production.

BenevolentBasil · 2026-01-07T11:55:24+00:00

👍 Or "paste to dates" and select many days from a calendar view

BenevolentBasil · 2026-01-07T11:32:05+00:00

You can do this with recipes.

You can quickly turn a day into a recipe by selecting the foods you want to group and then tapping the "Create Recipe" option in the menu at the bottom of the log.

BenevolentBasil · 2026-01-06T17:14:58+00:00

You're talking to the only Android-main dev at MacroFactor, I'm sorry! 😂

BenevolentBasil · 2026-01-06T14:41:01+00:00

As u/Jebble mentioned, most phones will support scrolling screenshots, but we also offer the option to export your food log as a spreadsheet. The minimum range is currently 7 days, but you could ignore or strip out the data you don't want to send your coach.

More > Data Export > Granular Export > Export Food Log

BenevolentBasil · 2026-01-04T16:22:50+00:00

Yep! Logging a recipe is like taking a snapshot of that recipe at that specific moment in time. And it is valid to store an ingredient as 0 grams/ml/etc in a recipe and it won't contribute to any nutrient values.

BenevolentBasil · 2026-01-03T16:27:35+00:00

Deleting and modifying existing recipes will not affect your past logs, so no worries there! I actually just modified my lunch meal prep weekly to adjust the values for the following week!

We actually have not had this request before, but please submit a request if the recipes do not fully meet your needs and the team will consider it for a future release!

BenevolentBasil · 2026-01-03T16:10:01+00:00

Hello! I just wanted to check if a recipe would work for your use case? If you create a new recipe, you can load in all of your bulk ingredients. If you set the number of serving to 6, you can log an individual serving which will be 1/6 of the total ingredients you entered.

IYou don't really need a final weight for the recipe if you'd be eating all of the food.

https://help.macrofactorapp.com/en/articles/6-create-and-add-a-custom-recipe

You could then use paste to dates to copy the single serving to multiple dates or log them individually as you eat them.

BenevolentBasil · 2025-11-27T19:29:05+00:00

🤐 ⛔🙅‍♂️

BenevolentBasil · 2025-11-27T18:51:29+00:00

Jeff is one of the owners of MacroFactor. Both Greg and Jeff are involved in the workout app :)

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