We are becoming increasingly aware of food and nutrition, and smartphones help in this. It is easier, with them, to know what to eat and what not, to maintain a diet healthy and balanced. There are dozens of applications focused on this, with more or less extensive databases. But there is a 'special', is named MyRealFood and, in reality, it is focused on telling us what it is real food and what are they ultra-processed.
Nutritional information is essential to know what we are eating and, indeed, to maintain a balanced diet. But Eat Healthy it also depends on controlling where the calories come from -for instance-. MyRealFood has three basic rules to help us, based on the 'Realfooding':
- Base your diet on real food.
- Supplement your diet with good processed foods.
- Avoid ultra-processed ones. The consumption of these products could be occasional, related to social and cultural events (10%).
Goodbye to excessively ultra-processed foods in your diet with MyRealFood
Like any other nutrition and food application, MyRealFood works in a really simple way: use the camera of your smartphone to scan the bar-code of the product and thereby searches for the product in a database own. This database tells us first if it is an ultra-processed food, or not. But in addition, it shows us indicators about food, additive, its ingredients, and of course the Nutrition Facts full. We can also see the macronutrients in a certain food product.
And the best of all is that, if we keep scrolling through the tab of a certain product, we can see the alternatives. Thus, if we use the application while we are shopping at the supermarket -for instance- We can easily find alternative products to the ultra-processed ones that we usually consume.
The application has a general assessment that determines if it is real food, well processed or ultra processed. We have a community tab where we can find recipes, user groups and others 'realfooders' that can serve as a reference. There is also a section in which the MyRealFood administrators themselves make interesting publications about this philosophy or about the application itself and its news.
In the categories tab is where we can see information about any product without having to scan any barcode. Something that will help us find interesting products for our food without the rush of the supermarket, for example. And in the monitoring tab of the application, what we can do is keep control of the amount of real food, good processed and ultra-processed foods that we have been consuming. We can set goals and, in this way, progressively replace the ultra-processed that we consume.
It is a free and really useful application. It could happen like 'one more app' on nutrition and food, but the truth is that the approach is totally different from any other. With this weight loss app diet, the goal is to avoid 'junk food'. And they do not even tell us to stop consuming ultra-processed foods in a definitive and absolute way, but simply to be aware of our diet and reduce, to a certain extent, the consumption of this type of food that is not recommended for our health.
