Nutrition & Food The NIH Weighed Every Meal to a Tenth of a Gram. Four AI Calorie Apps Undercounted by up to 345.
In a locked NIH metabolic kitchen where every ingredient was weighed to 0.1 grams, MyFitnessPal, Lose It!, CalAI, and Appediet each read a plate and undercounted it by a quarter to a third, missing the fat most of all.
By Sarah Okonkwo · July 28, 2026