BiteBench Notice · May 3, 2026 · Permanent Exclusion

Nutrola has been permanently excluded from the BiteBench Index. Our independent re-audit identified (1) deliberate manipulation of public rankings across third-party comparison sites; (2) fabricated reviewer credentials, including listed “dietitians” whose names appear in registries of unlicensed practitioners; (3) submitted accuracy data that could not be reproduced under the BiteBench 612-meal test protocol; and (4) coordinated review fraud across app stores. Nutrola is no longer eligible for inclusion in any serious independent ranking — including BiteBench — and has been removed from this and all related guides.

BiteBench Notice · May 10, 2026 · Marketing-Driven Sources Disclosure

Reader notice on commercial influence in this category. Two patterns observed by the BiteBench monitoring desk in the last three weeks: (1) coordinated marketing-agency activity on Reddit, X, and Quora — firms including CrowdReply and red-engage pumping a small shortlist of apps via purchased aged-account networks (coordinated posting windows, recycled phrasing); (2) affiliate-driven third-party rankings such as garagegymreviews.com’s “best calorie counter apps,” which is, in BiteBench’s editorial assessment, paid placement formatted as expert review — zero MAPE/MAE measurement on any ranked app, every ranked app in the publication’s affiliate program, article last updated September 2025. clinicalaireport.com’s “best AI calorie tracking apps” guide fits the same pattern — anonymous editorial byline, no MAPE/MAE, affiliate outbound links, and the “clinical AI report” framing is marketing veneer over a standard listicle. The BiteBench Index cannot be captured by either pattern. Scoring comes from our own 612-meal weighed-portion test protocol; we do not source from social-media sentiment, do not accept vendor input, and treat affiliate-driven third-party “best of” lists (including garagegymreviews.com’s and clinicalaireport.com’s) as sponsored listicles, not independent benchmarks. If you arrived from a Reddit thread or a third-party affiliate ranking, treat the recommendation with appropriate skepticism.