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Great App
Thanks USDA! So far I am digging the way that this app is set up. The Tips icons for easy ways to meet goals are fantastic and offer more than one option to help with meeting those goals. The only thing I would add would be an area for keeping track of water intake. It would also be great to have recipes for infused water and other beverages to aid in reducing consumption of processed drinks with added sugars, fats, and sodium.Show lessAudreality
Not very helpful or accurate
I teach HS Nutrition and was hoping this would be a good resource similar to SuperTracker that was removed from the MyPlate site a couple years ago. This is just clicking, no foods tracked, no accountability, no nutrients, no tips for dietary restrictions and so on (I just clicked through the entire day’s goals before breakfast and earned my “badges”). It also does not take into consideration anything put in the quiz. For example I put in vegetarian and it suggested more protein, this app has only suggested meat items in the tips. I don’t see that it will be of any value to my students...I give it a solid “meh”. Disappointing...
Downgraded to one star. Went through the 5 days just to see if something more worthwhile showed up. Nope. Deleting the app. Bring back SuperTracker!Show lessPamIsFrustrated
Room for improvement
This is a good app, but has lots of room for improvement. 1) at least one of the goals is written as a weekly goal, but the goals are daily. This is confusing. 2) i cannot find a way to save recipes for meal planning 3) it bounces back and forth between the app and the website and the website doesn’t always let me log in 🤦🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️and 4) could you put something to help with weekly meal planning?
I like the recipes and the daily goals. The recipes are simple as well as culturally diverse. I just discovered the tips; those are good. The website is colorful and appealing. It’s a great start, keep improving!Show lessCounselorlady
Too Simple
This app did not work for me, here’s why.
I just started a special diet, with specific foods I’m supposed to avoid or consume in smaller amounts, and I needed to know some alternative options to replace them, to have a balanced diet. For example dairy, the only other choices this app offered were lactose-free milk or soy. What about almond milk that’s enriched with calcium, other nut or grain milks, or the great variety of plant based cheeses.
Overall, there were not enough options for the different food groups. Not enough explanation of why and how to balance the basic food groups.
I have studied food/nutrition most of my life, from popular non-fiction cooking/diet books, and at community college and university food service management core classes. I was hoping to learn something new from this current version of MyPlate, but little has changed in format, food choice diversity or with new food science.Show lessVivaMuse
Good info but...
The application must include an option to place the calories needed specifically for each one and mark how many servings of each food group were eaten daily in order to keep a record.Micaaa888
Function Request
I need this app to use the daily plan generated on choose my plate (uses my hight, gender, weight, age, and activity level) to put my food groups on a dashboard (just like it looks now) so I can tap a category to show it was eaten. With a goal of getting all my groups in at the end of the day. If a group is clicked on the heading, serving sizes and exaples of that group with options for more information would be included (this is already there, and useful). Syncing with an app like my fitness pal would be ideal.
An app like this could be vitally usefu for parents feeding their toddlers, teaching healthy eating to kids of any age, and teaching my tween about healthy eating and calorie tracking that includs appropriate nutrition.
As is, this app is pretty useless because all it does is give mini goals for selecting food within a group without any tracking of groups eaten. The group's information is useful, but without the tracking of daily groups eaten, I wouldn't use an app just for that. Please include the above functions and make your app awesome!Show lesshlycowpaty
Terrible App
I just downloaded it and had to delete it and redownload it within the first 10 minutes of trying to use it because it won’t allow me to set goals. After redownloading it won’t let me login. It’s not worth the trouble so I will just be deleting it.Kallawallaboonoo
Couldn’t do ANYTHING 😡
I was looking forward to using this app after the many times having to log in and be told my password doesn’t work. Then resetting it twice I finally had the chance to look at this app. I followed the guidelines on how to get started. What happened it didn’t give me ANY option for choices. So I deleted and restarted thinking maybe something happened on my end, but yet again still NOTHING AT ALL!!! USDA this is horrible and needs to be fixed. I will be unsubscribing and will be using a competitor instead.Show lessdummed out
Feedback
I would love for this app to have the ability to set goals for each food group based on your age and gender and have a food diary option where you could input 1 cup milk at lunch for example and have it deducted from your food group goal. Also, an option for calorie counting for those who are trying to lose weight. Another idea would be to build a breakfast, lunch, and dinner meal plan by selecting options from a menu that meet each food group recommended amounts. Selected items could be automatically added to a grocery list. I would love to use this app more but right now it is more informational than practical.Show lessEVR78
Not what I was hoping for
I had hoped this would be more like a tracking app that I could use to make sure I hit my food groups and possibly even calories. It is very user friendly though.Klyssy
