Guides
What's behind the numbers: how your body absorbs fat and how accurate calorie apps really are. With sources, and without telling you what to eat.
🫧What is a micelle?Food science📸How accurate are photo calorie apps?Accuracy🏷️How to read a Nutrition Facts labelEating with data
What they cover
- What is a micelle?: A micelle is a tiny sphere that wraps fat so your body can absorb it, along with vitamins A, D, E and K. Here's how it works, from your gut to dish soap.
- How accurate are photo calorie apps?: An NIH team tested MyFitnessPal, Lose It!, Cal AI and Appediet against meals weighed to a tenth of a gram. The apps came in 250 to 345 calories short per meal.
- How to read a Nutrition Facts label: A step-by-step guide to the U.S. Nutrition Facts label: servings, calories, % Daily Value, added sugars and sodium, and how it compares to Latin America's octagons.
Also: how we calculate the data.