Category Archives: Development

Database updated with new USDA sr25

Posted on December 11, 2012 by admin

The USDA has recently released version sr25 of their food database. We’ve updated our foods with this new information. This release adds over 200 new food items, as well as more accurate nutritional information for existing items.

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New Gold Features: Diary Groups

Posted on December 13, 2011 by admin

We’re pleased to announce a new feature for our Gold Subscribers.  You can now activate diary groups, allowing you to create up to 6 custom categories for your daily entries.   To activate the feature, go to your diary, click … Continue reading →

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Ordering Your Diary

Posted on December 11, 2011 by admin

We’ve just fixed a long standing issue where the specific ordering of the entries you logged in a day was not being preserved. The exact order you enter all items will now be preserved. You can now also drag-and-drop the … Continue reading →

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New Feature: Withings Device Support

Posted on November 22, 2011 by admin

We are pleased to announce that we now support Withings devices. Withings makes wi-fi enabled biometric devices. They currently have a body scale and a blood pressure monitor. Now you can link your withings account to your cronometer.com account, so … Continue reading →

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Custom Exercises

Posted on November 22, 2011 by admin

By request, we’ve added support for custom exercise entries.  For example, you may have worked out at the gym on the training equipment, and know how many calories burned, you can enter it directly as a custom exercise, rather than … Continue reading →

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Track your cholesterol levels

Posted on November 10, 2011 by admin

We’ve added biometrics for tracking your total Cholesterol, LDL, HDL, and tricylcerides. For those getting regular blood tests to manage their cholesterol levels, this can make it easier to correlate with your diet and exercise trends.

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Ask The Oracle

Posted on October 1, 2011 by admin

Gold Subscribers get a new feature this week: Ask The Oracle. Located on the Foods tab, the nutrient oracle can help you explore the food database to find good sources for particular nutrients. The results can be ranked in three … Continue reading →

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Je parle un peu français…

Posted on September 23, 2011 by admin

Today’s new version adds some preliminary support for languages. Don’t get too excited — it’s just a baby step in the direction of having full translations. To kick things off, we’ve added food data from the Canadian Nutrient File (CNF). … Continue reading →

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New Food & Recipe Editor

Posted on September 11, 2011 by admin

We’ve just released a new food & recipe editor. This version should be simpler to use than before.  Instead of a pop-up dialog, the food details are displayed inline on the foods tab and can be edited in place. We’ve … Continue reading →

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Hidden Features

Posted on August 24, 2011 by admin

There are a few hidden features we’d like to take a moment to point out for you power-users. In the diary, you can now multi-select entries by shift-clicking the items. This will filter the nutrition summary below to show totals … Continue reading →

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