A Nutrition Expert Tested AI Diet-Tracking Apps: Here’s What She Found
University of Virginia dietitian Sibylle Kranz signed up for several popular AI diet-tracking apps and found real convenience and personalisation alongside misread photographs, crowdsourced databases that change their minds and extensive data collection. This piece sets out her findings, the NIH, University of Sydney and Emory studies that support them, her six-step checklist for testing an app yourself, and why she calls these tools a supplement to professional advice rather than a replacement.