Low GI Diet Tracker - glycemic index & load counter with search app for iPhone and iPad
Low GI Tracker is the first and only GI *counter* with the largest food database available.
Manage your dietary glycemic index and glycemic load with this comprehensive and advanced GI Tracker. Finally, a way to look up GI and GL values for nearly 8,000 common foods, *and* record them to a daily food log!
Low GI Dieters LOVE Low GI Diet Tracker:
"A fabulous help if you are following a Low Glycaemic Index diet as it allows you to check all the foods which you buy or prepare."
-- myhealthportal.co.uk
"Wonderful tool. It provides me with all I need to maintain a low carbohydrate lifestyle".
"Great App!!!!! I have been recently diagnosed with prediabetes, and this app is really helping me plan menus to help me get the most from my diet..."
"I love it."
Glycemic Index is a measure of the impact of a food on your blood sugar / glucose levels. The higher the index value, the more that food raises your blood sugar. Managing the GI of the foods you eat may be an important step in maintaining a healthy diet, especially for prediabetics and people on low carb diets.
With a few taps, you can search through thousands of foods, color-coded by high-, medium-, and low-GI ratings. Next, select a serving size based on common servings (or select by weight -- grams, ounces, or pounds). This will bring up a convenient view of each foods GI, glycemic load (a measure of the impact of your selected serving on blood sugar), net carbs (total carbs minus dietary fiber), and a macronutrient breakdown pie chart.
You can quickly log this food as eaten. The food log feature allows you to see the average GI of all foods (a weighted average based on amount consumed), the total glycemic load of all the foods, total net carbs, total calories, and a macronutrient breakdown. Plus, quickly review the GI of each meal, plus see a sum total of the each meals average GI and total GL.
HIGHLIGHTS
- "No frustrations" design. It works like it should.
- Search nearly 8,000 common foods for Glycemic Index and Glycemic Load values. This database is twice the size of other apps databases.
- Graph your glycemic index averages and total glycemic load and net carbs.
- Pick from many common serving sizes, or select your own based on weight.
- See GI, GL, net carbs, and a macronutrient breakdown for each food.
- Create your own custom foods and enter their GI and GL values.
- Create a favorites list to easily access your commonly eaten foods.
- Log foods to a handy daily food log.
- View average GI for the day, total GL, net carbs, calories, macronutrients, plus GI and GL for each meal.
All of the data in this app are from the U.S. National Institute of Health / National Cancer Institute glycemic index database.
Disclaimer
This app contains general information about nutrition. The information is not advice, and should not be treated as such. Glycemic response is measured under experimental conditions, and an individuals glycemic response can vary from the experimental findings.
You must not rely on the information in this app as an alternative to medical advice from your doctor or other professional healthcare provider. If you have any specific questions about any medical matter you should consult your doctor or other professional healthcare provider. Always consult your doctor or other professional healthcare provider before changing your diet.
Pros and cons of Low GI Diet Tracker - glycemic index & load counter with search app for iPhone and iPad
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Great way to monitor your eating habits so you feel full and satisfied Love the way it also monitor GL and carbs Great if you could export the data!
This app is the only one I have found that actually lets me record/keep track of gi and gl. I really like it and use it every day. I do wish I could keep a favorites list though - entering in the same items each time can be quite time consuming!
I cant believe the people who are unhappy with this app. Its my all-time favorite and functions well on my iPad.
I did have some problems early last year with the memory and wrote the developer about them. They replied right away and went to work fixing it (successfully I might add). It has been working great since then except the graph section, which I have confidence they will soon fix (now that I sent an email requesting a fix or explanation of what Im doing wrong).
Ive had no problem entering "custom foods" along with their data and it works perfectly. As for the person who thought the app would calculate the GI & GL of the foods they entered; they do not understand how the Glycemic Index is calculated (only in a lab setting with at least 10 people participating in the experiment involving food consumption and multiple blood tests). There is no magical formula for calculating a foods GI. Find the GI of the food before you enter it (research it online).
For anyone planning to change their lifestyle to the Glycemic Index way of eating, this app is absolutely essential. Take the time to research what Glycemic Index is and how it works before passing judgement on the tools youll need to succeed.
Pretty darn cool app :-) (&, seriously, a low rating bcuz it doesnt spell check ur searches?!? Just enter part of the word then; that works great :-) )
I am very happy with the application to date but here are some constructive suggestions. In the daily report, it would be nice to have calories and GI load for each item instead of the total for the day. If you are eating the same type of food and quantity regularly ( e.g.partcular brand of cereal etc.) there should be a quicker way to enter these items in the system. Ability to project Average GI and calorie consumption based on what you are expecting to eat in the day (say at dinner time) will make this app even more valuable. Great work.
This app is great, it is intuitive, easy to use and does everything that it said it would do. I would recommend this app to anyone interested in tracking foods by glycemic index. One suggestion I would make is that the developers consider adding a favorites list so as to avoid looking everything up each time; however the lookup is simple to use
Some bad moments
Very poor compared to other diet trackers I have used. Searching the food list is tedious. For example I searched for potato and it gave me all meals it could find that contained the word potato, some of the items repeated several times but I never did find just plain potato to add to my dinner. I wish I had waited for a free app and not wasted my money on this one.
The concept is nice... I only wish it would work. The app crashes frequently when searching. As someone said before, finding something is also tedious.
I wish I could get my money back.
This is possibly the worst App ever made. I was so disappointed I deleted it. Save your money. This App will have no value for anyone except the scammer who created it.
As another reviewer said, searching food lists is tedious with a lot of multiple entries for the same foods. Wasted a lot of time searching for basic foods without success. I would say the developers claim of over 8,000 foods is greatly exaggerated. Froze a few times while trying to navigate between windows. I expected that the app would calculate the GI &GL of the basic foods I entered myself when I entered all the other fields, but it doesnt. Im very disappointed and ticked off about wasting my money.
It would be better if it contained GI info on whole foods and not the extent of processed junk that seem to be the norm Ive had to go on-line to find the GI and GL of most of the food I eat as I follow a whole foods diet.
I was really hoping this app would be good. The screenshots in the App Store were promising BUT that ended up being the best part of the App.
The Search function is terrible with no spell checking, no completion, no suggestions as you type.
Once you find what youre after and go to the details screen it only shows part of the item in question.
ie. The Details Screen for an egg omelette with cheese only shows the egg. This means if you want to track an egg omelette with cheese you need to search and save the egg and the cheese separately.
Not Recommended.
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