New Nutritter Facts! Egg on English Muffin
April 30th, 2009In Our Humble Opinion, PB&J Rules!
April 29th, 2009Tweeting Your Meals = Tracking Your Nutrition
April 28th, 2009
That’s right! Tracking your nutrition is literally as easy as tweeting.
For Current Members
Track your nutrition in two steps.
1. Visit your Settings Page and enter your Twitter username and password
2. Tweet your meals comma separated and add a #nutritteralpha hashtag OR direct message (DM) them to @nutritter for privacy
That’s it! You’ll get a summary either after every meal or at the end of the day depending on your notification preferences.
Please note! While you can still use your Nutritter food-log on nutritter.com, we are using two different search mechanisms so results from entering on nutritter.com will be less accurate than if you enter food from a public tweet or private twitter direct message. The good news? The more you tweet or DM your meals, the better the search on nutritter.com gets! Help us out and enter your meals from twitter!
For New Members
Track your nutrition in two steps:
1. Join Nutritter with an invite code and your Twitter username and password. don’t have a code? request one here. Don’t have a Twitter account? create one here.
2. Tweet your meals comma separated and add a #nutritteralpha hashtag OR direct message (DM) @nutritter for privacy
Please note that during Alpha, your food might not immediately show up on your Nutritter food log, but it WILL get there! Worry not, you never have to visit your Nutritter food log after signing up if you don’t want to. Just wait for your nutritional summary to be sent to you.
For your viewing pleasure, a quick video intro to tweeting your meals:
A big thank you to alpha users who have been so generous with their time and feedback. An old school shout-out to Sarah Maple, Mabernathy, Orchid8, Misslss, subwolf and BenSpark among many others!
Want More? Ok, where are we going from here?
Food Log
So you’re tracking your nutrition, now what? Over the coming months we will be enhancing and changing your Nutritter food-log to give you:
- a simplified experience
- graphing and analysis of your nutrition
- the ability to share multimedia recipes
- commenting for friends and groups
- a way to connect and share with more of your other web profiles
- constantly increased search accuracy
- consulting with peer reviewed health professionals
Feedback
As always, we want your thoughts! Will you tweet your meals? What do you want Nutritter to do next? Send us some feedback privately or publicly.
Eat Less for Mother Earth
April 21st, 2009
So you want to do your part conserving the environment?
Maintain a healthy body weight! That’s right, the #1 thing you can do to reduce your carbon footprint just happens to be the #1 thing you can do to live a healthier life (besides not smoking cigarettes). How do you figure? Check out the article in Science Daily for more details, but it goes something like this:
1. the food you eat needs to be transported to your local grocery store. “…researchers estimate that a lean population of 1 billion people would emit 1.0 GT (1,000 million tonnes) less carbon dioxide equivalents per year compared with a fat one.”
2. food production is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions. studies have shown “a lean population, such as that seen in Vietnam, will consume almost 20% less food and produce fewer greenhouse gases than a population in which 40% of people are obese (close to that seen in the USA today).”
So there you go. Try to get your produce from local growers and maybe take that 3000 calorie diet down to 2000. You’ll save yourself some huffing-and-puffing getting up those stairs and who knows, you might just save a polar bear.
Cancer and Your Nutrition
April 10th, 2009
That’s right, it’s not just diabetes or heart-health any more. Significant evidence presented by the American Institute for Cancer Research on Capital Hill concluded almost 40 percent of breast cancer and 45 percent of colon cancer could be prevented by getting your fruits and veggies and maintaining a healthy body weight. Sure, a pack a day will kill ya faster, but your diet and fitness might be doing just as good a job. Check out more details here and remember to keep it nutritious!
Where’s the Confirmation?
April 7th, 2009Hello again alpha users! Ah, things they are a-changin’ all the time. You’ll notice that from now on, when you enter a new food, we no longer make you confirm it. You can always go and edit it and create your own recipes if you don’t like our guess just like normal.
Stay tuned…this will be super useful when you see what’s next by popular demand!
New Search Algorithm Testing
April 6th, 2009Just a heads up to alpha users, we a
re going to be trying new things with the search algorithm over the coming weeks. If you notice it is more aligned or less aligned with your expectations, let us know! Also notice more and more generic ingredients being added for things like “turkey sandwich” “garden salad” or “chicken burrito” These generics are based on rough averages of similar foods already found in the nutritter database. We hope these will be a convenience for most of you who just want a quick way to enter-and-go without worrying about exact ingredients. Let us know what you think!
SXSW Nutritter Interviews from startupLUCKY & ‘on the ground’
April 1st, 2009Was great to catch up with people at SXSW. Thanks again to orchid8 with startupLUCKY and Phil Campbell with ‘on the ground‘ for the interviews. Lots more to come from Nutritter!
Simeon Margolis from Nutritter - ‘ontheground’ sxsw 2009 quick interview. from Phil Campbell - England on Vimeo.
A Few Changes
March 26th, 2009Hello Alpha Users! Come check out some small tweaks to the food log that we think make it easier to use. There’s lots more ahead, but for now, we changed the labels and functionality of the three buttons you see after entering a new food. Let us know what you think.
Next up is adding more generics to the database and using them when you don’t specify a brand in your description. Keep the feedback coming and don’t forget to connect with other alpha users on the community page.
Friend me at: nutritter.com/sim
Soon we’ll be able to comment on each other’s recipes.
Welcome Alpha Users
March 24th, 2009
A big welcome to our second round of alpha users. We’re looking forward to sharing lots of changes and getting your feedback in the weeks ahead. We’ve suspended the 2 invites for people who join from now on, so if you still have an invite, use it wisely!
Among your fellow users are all-stars you should friend on the Community Page like:
- Banannie
banannie.com
twitter.com/banannie
nutritter.com/banannie
- BenSpark
benspark.com
twitter.com/benspark
nutritter/benspark
-DerekMarkham
twilightearth.com
twitter.com/derekmarkham
nutritter.com/derekmarkham
- DougH
doughaslam.com
twitter.com/dough
nutritter.com/dough
- MattMueller
nutritter.com/mattmueller
- Misslss
twitter.com/misslss
nutritter.com/misslss
- Orchid8
sarahvela.net
twitter.com/orchid8
nutritter.com/orchid8
- psanketh
twitter.com/psanketh
nutritter.com/psanketh
-rkshot
nutritter.com/rkshot
- Sooz
sooz.com
twitter.com/sooz
nutritter.com/sooz
Look out for some small changes in the days ahead and much more in the weeks to come when we’ll invite one more round of alpha users to lend us a hand. As always, feel free to ping us at feedback at nutritter dot, our feedback page or here in the comments.