One-off fee. Free updates. No ads/subscription/registration. Scan barcode. Sync w. other FLMC apps. Color-coded high-calcium foods, plants, prebiotics, probiotics, UPFs.
Use this app to avoid calcium deficiency, which is common if you are on a vegan, milk-free or weightloss diet or if you are pregnant or breastfeeding. Deficiency results in osteoporosis with weakened fracture-prone bones and loose teeth, impaired muscle function with muscle cramps and spasms, dry skin, and brittle hair and nails. In addition, women under 55 years of age who have a higher calcium intake have been found to have a lower risk of bowel cancer.
Set your target daily calcium intake based on guidance provided in the app and your preferences for weights of food (g or oz) and display of calcium content in foods and beverages (ie, mg/serving, %target/serving, mg/100g, mg/1oz, %target/100g or %target/1oz).
Record food and beverage consumption using the barcode scanner (please note that only manufacturers in the US are required to include calcium content in the nutrition label read by the scanner), dictation, search or by favoriting foods and using the serving sizes provided (which can be changed at any time). Tap the notepad to add notes.
Monitor daily and long-term progress, export data to share with healthcare providers, synchronize data with other First Line Medical Communications Ltd nutrient counter apps, and share data with Apple's HealthKit.
Add your own foods and recipes and change serving sizes to personalize the app's 400-item database for you.
All food and beverage popups indicate whether the item is a plant, good prebiotic, probiotic or ultra-processed food (UPF) to inform a healthy diet and whether they are high or low FODMAP per serving where data are available to support people with irritable bowel syndrome.
The app also provides nutritional information for many healthy foods and supports a healthy gut microbiome diet using color-coded type and icons.
If I add or search for a food item I want to see HOW MANY mg Calcium are IN THAT item/ amount. NOT just percentages. It is too difficult to double-check percentages. Developers please take a look at Protein Pal App to see how a streamlined food app can work.
Developer Response
You are seeing percentages because you chose %target rather than mg in the settings for display of quantities. Toggle to mg in settings and you'll get the mg. Meanwhile, we are about to release a major upgrade for all our apps with a new easier-to-use interface, on-screen help files, and the ability to see a lot more detail (including mg and percentage) on screens. All upgrades are free for everyone who has paid the one-off fee for each app or app bundle.
Very clunky
LHHSr
The app is just too difficult to use. It doesn’t have a barcode database so when you scan it brings you to what it considers is the closest thing in its database so you have to spend time customizing its numbers to match the calcium content on the label. Or you enter everything yourself. Other apps simply allow you to scan; is that to difficult/expensive for these developers? I could go on about the problems. Listen to the reviewers, as I should have done, skip this one.
Developer Response
We would like to make it clear that scanning barcodes will record the food and its calcium content if the barcode is in the international Open Food Facts database. But not all foods have a barcode and in many countries manufacturers do not provide calcium content in the nutrition label — unlike, calories, carb, protein, fiber, fat, calcium content is not required in the label in most countries except the US. The app therefore provides a large curated database for the user to quickly find a best fit using dictation, search or favorites. Alternatively you can add in your own foods to the app's database if they are not in the Open Food Facts barcode database using the data on the packaging — see instructions for use in the "How to use the app section" "7. Record intake" and "9. Add food"
Agree it’s a bit clunky
Measnbdof
I agree with another review that indicates this is a bit clunky to use. It feels very rigid; not allowing for easy changes in the amount of food you are trying to record. Also, one of the biggest issues is that the foods high in calcium are written in purple and are almost impossible to read. I don’t understand a developer not seeing this as problematic.
Developer Response
The app must know how much your different servings of food (eg slice, cup, portion) weigh to calculate your daily calcium intake in mg. So you need to provide the app with that information when requested. You will then be able to add and then see calcium content per serving (eg slice, cup, portion) rather than per ounce or 100g of your food. The app is consistent and the same process will apply to all foods the first time you add them to the app. Alternatively you can use the app's 400-item database and serving sizes provided, which is very straightforward.
Not easy to use
Yxyyc
Despite the fact this tracker has an area where you can enter your own foods to the list when you click on them, there is no way to add them to your daily count. The daily counter is not easy to use. The list of calcium foods to choose from is very limited. This app needs a lot of work in order to be user-friendly.
Developer Response
An inability to add an added food to your daily count suggests it hasn't been saved to the database. Meanwhile, we are about to release a major upgrade for all our apps with a new easier-to-use interface, on-screen help files, and the ability to see a lot more detail on screens. All upgrades are free for everyone who has paid the one-off fee for each app or app bundle.
Revised titles for a few screenshots.
Version 2.12.14
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