About Calculorie
How accurate is calorie counting from a photo? 📸
In short: super handy, but not perfectly accurate 🙂
Photo-based calorie estimates are usually rough guesses (often off by ±20–40%), because a camera can’t truly know:
- the exact portion weight (that’s the big one!),
- the recipe/cooking method (oil, sauces, sugar = sneaky calorie ninjas 🥷),
- what’s inside (fillings, fat %, hidden ingredients).
Still, it’s awesome for building the habit. If our app counts calories from photos, use it like this:
1) Take the pic in good lighting and capture the whole plate.
2) Review what it detected and edit (add sauces/oil/cheese manually).
3) If available, set portion size (grams/spoons/pieces). Even better: weigh one meal a day for a week to “calibrate your eye.”
Pro tip: progress comes from consistency, not perfection. 80% daily beats 100% once in a while 😉
