Android-Based Nutrition Education Application

Abstract

Nutrition is a constituent of foodstuff having an important function to body health. Many people ignore as to how the food can influence the body. Due to their negligence, it is often that the calorie or energy entering the body is excessive resulting in a negative impact on the body health. The lack of nutrition knowledge along with the negligence of food intake arrangement entering the body can have a negative impact on the body. Therefore, the needs to find out the number of nutritional need required by the body can be manually calculated; however, it is a little bit complex. This study aimed to design application to provide nutrition education easiness in finding out the nutrition needs and arranging the proper food pattern. The application was made by using studio android with database firebase and operated by using Android Smartphone, Harris Benedict method in calculating energy, System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) method approach with the Waterfall model. This study result was Android-based nutrition education application. In this application, there is a user menu to find out the nutrition needs and administrator in managing data. System testing was performed by Black box, expert validation test, and System Usability Scale (SUS) method, with 30 respondents resulting in a very good SUS score of 84.5 and thus the application can be accepted.