MyFitnessPal adds recipe search
SAN FRANCISCO — MyFitnessPal, the app used by millions to track their calories, has a new offering on the menu: tracking recipes.
Today the ad-supported app, which has 65 million users, adds the tool to search for recipes and then track the calories of each ingredient.
Users can look up recipes from websites — say meat loaf or chicken tortilla soup — directly from within the app, and once found, the app copies and pastes it into the profile, and adds the calorie and nutrition information.
Recipe searching "encourages people to cook at home," says Albert Lee, MyFitnessPal's Chief Product Officer. "Our research shows that people who cook at home lose 40% more weight than those who don't."
The tool is available for the Apple and Android versions of the app, and on MyFitnessPal.com.
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