I’m Susan Macfarlane and I’m a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist running a busy private practice in Canada’s capital of Ottawa, Ontario. I’m also a nutrition contributor at Cronometer, where I answer all your nutrition and health-related questions in the forums. In my practice, I am an expert consultant on vegan and vegetarian diets, and specialize in

With millions of food products on the global market, keeping our database complete and correct is a big job. We’re working on some major projects to improve our curation abilities, and today we’ve rolled out the first of these improvements. We’re making it easier to report issues with our foods so that our curation staff

Last night Google’s security team published details about a security bug in a leading cloud services provider, Cloudflare. Cloudflare sits between web sites and users to optimize content delivery and provide protection from hackers and DDoS attacks. Cloudflare is used by over 4 million websites, including cronometer.com. While the practical risk to our users is

We’re excited to officially announce our new product for health care professionals. The new professional edition is designed for Dieticians, Trainers, Coaches, & Doctors who need to track and manage multiple profiles within cronometer. Some of the key features: The professional edition includes all of the gold features for both the professional and all of their

Sugar Alcohols We’ve now added support to track total Sugar Alcohols (polyols) in the carbohydrate breakdown. Please note we only currently have data for this in some of our whole foods database. By default they are not tracked as a target in your diary, but you can enable this on the Profile tab. GrassrootsHealth Vitamin

We’ve just rolled out support for garmin devices! You can now sync your Garmin data (activity, sleep, and heart rate) into cronometer. To link your account, just login to your cronometer.com account and go to the Profile tab. Find the Garmin section at the bottom and click the corresponding button to link and follow the steps

Just a few small updates today on our device integrations. We’ve added a ‘Export Food Calories’ checkbox to the fitbit sync, which will now export calories eaten to your fitbit account. We’re now also importing sleep and activity data from withings sync. We’re working hard on adding Garmin support, and hope to have that out for

We’ve just rolled out some updates for our gold subscribers! A new ‘Full Report’ section under the Trends tab lets you customize detailed reports for printing that can include your nutrition summary, charts, and diary information. This is a great feature if you need to take a summary of your data to your doctor or

If you’re like me, you have a lot of older custom foods and recipes you no longer use. We’ve added an item to the food editor’s menu to ‘Retire’ a custom food. Instead of entirely deleting the food (and all the associated servings that used it), a retired food is not deleted from the system,

Today we have a few changes to the dynamic macronutrients feature. These changes are on the web version only, but will be rolled out in the mobile apps as well in their next updates. We’ve had the dynamic macronutrient targets feature for a long time, which lets you set and display preferred macronutrient ratio target.