Vitamin A not connecting to Apple Health app
Hi, due to different units (I am guessing), the Apple Health app is not getting any data on Vitamin A from the Cronometer app. Can this be solved in any way?
Thanks!
Hi, due to different units (I am guessing), the Apple Health app is not getting any data on Vitamin A from the Cronometer app. Can this be solved in any way?
Thanks!
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Hi @VitaminA ,
This is caused by the fact that current data mapping for Apple Health only allows Apple Health to read Vitamin A in Retinol Activity Equivalents (RAE). RAE is the best way to measure vitamin A because it takes into account all the types of vitamin A we can get from foods (i.e. preformed vitamin A and precursors, like beta-carotene). Unfortunately, the data for RAE is not available for most branded foods.
I would recommend using generic foods from USDA/NCCDB that will have these values to get the most comprehensive nutrition information with more complete RAE/Vitamin A data. For more tips on how to get the most nutrition data from Cronometer, check out this blog post on the topic: https://cronometer.com/blog/6-tips-getting-nutrition-data/
Kind regards,
Marie-Eve
Marie-Eve
cronometer.com
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