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Is It Any Good?
This MyPlate app needs lots of work! Other wellness apps like MyFitnessPal offer much more specificity on curating meal plans, calorie tracking, and activity levels.
So why use the MyPlate app? It's number 1 benefit for nutrition practitioners is the ability to quickly provide daily food group recommendations for all ages at any time.
Consider the parents who aren't sure how much food to give their 1 year old, the patient you just saw who can't name 5 different fruits or veggies, even consider yourself - do you know your own food group recommendations?
Consider downloading the app and leaving a comment on their app page, we as RD's must play a role in the advocacy of our health technology that our tax dollars fundShow lessFireFreak1234
Not very helpful, needs work!
There’s a bunch of prefabricated goals but no real point to using this app. I deleted it right away as I found it pretty useless. It would be better if they overhauled it and turned it into a servings tracker instead based on quiz results. Yes, we know how to divide a plate properly, but having a calorie/serving type/size tracker, including a visual of what those sizes look like would actually be useful. It would be great to have multiple profiles to track a family and have all of that information in one place Vs having to measure and scour the internet to find it. Please fix this! There is potential in the idea it’s just not there yet.Show lesssarawileyxo
Offers great guidance but could be better
The app offers great information on food groups, portions and ways to incorporate into daily diet. However, I think there could be more productive features in the app that help build a balanced meal plan for the day/week. It should give users the option to create a meal plan based off of the daily goals they set, as well as options to create a grocery list that accounts for the amounts of each food group needed in order to fulfill daily goals and prepare correct serving sizes, so if a woman needs 3 cups of fruit each day she will need to add up to 21 cups of different fruits to the shopping list, and if shopping/meal planning for a family it should allow ability to account for the dietary needs for each member (21 cups fruit mom, 21 cups fruit dad, 7 cups fruit baby, etc.) weekly meal plans should account for breakfast lunch dinner and snacks so it is easy to spread out servings of each food group across the day.Show lesskuuchanda
Mediocre App
I don’t find the goals to be helpful. Calorie and macro goals would be more helpful.
In the app, there is a link to “take myplate quiz again” and if you follow the link, complete the quiz, click ‘save results’, login after prompt: it takes you to “page not found” and results are lost. I’ve done this twice now. Waste of time.Show lessDoç
Unnecessary difficulty
This could be a useful app but when I use it, there is no place to store my data. I have an account but it doesn’t seem to be linked to the app. It’s ridiculous to have a potentially simple app but not the ability to link to an account. There may be governmental privacy reasons for this but as it is, it’s useless to me. I’m willing to revisit this in the future.Show lessBeth196119791984
Impossible to change values
If this tool behaved like it appears it would it would be great but it doesn’t allow you to track what you’ve eaten. It doesn’t allow you to change. What your goals are. It gives you challenges that you can do like eat a sweet fruit instead of candy and you can check off that goal but it’s not useful for actually tracking what you’re eating on a day-to-day basis feels like the design was good, but the product was not well thought out or executed on.Show lessJimm6378
Great for reminders
This app is great for reminding you to eat healthy but I would love it if gave suggestions on meals and recipes. Or if a notification was added for “hey check your blood sugar, eat a snack, have you eaten any vegetables today” and it would be better if it was breakfast, lunch, dinner organized not just by goals.Show lesscricket3788
Awful
User unfriendly. Requires password of 12 letters, as if it’s my banking account. It was impossible to log in/creat an account so I entered as guest and by doing that (I guess) it’s became even more useless. What is it every time the Gov is creating an app it’s the worst experience?RedStarinSky
My plate
It is a fun website and it teaches good nutrition in the process of setting goals and by working to accomplish them on a daily process .the Herkemers
For beginners only
The quiz was helpful but the app gives you nothing after that. It might help if you’re a total beginner but if you have a fair amount of nutritional knowledge it’s useless.RJJ36
