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Magdalena Ortiz-Pellegrini, RDN, MS

Editor-in-Chief

Reviewing nutrition apps since 2017 (9 years)

About Magdalena Ortiz-Pellegrini

Magdalena Ortiz-Pellegrini founded Nutrition Apps Ranked because the calorie- and nutrition-tracking app category has, for nearly a decade, been covered by content whose rankings shuffle on commission rates, not on whether an app actually works. Her editorial answer is the publication you are reading: an editorial-magazine-style review house that runs every app through the same rubric, signs every page with a named credentialed reviewer, and refuses sponsored placement.

She has tested every major nutrition app since 2017 — beginning with the original MyFitnessPal database era, through the photo-AI wave (Foodvisor, Cal AI, SnapCalorie, Bitesnap), the macro-coaching era (MacroFactor, Carbon, RP Diet App), and the current 2026 cohort led by PlateLens. The result is a working sense, refined across nine years, of which design choices in this category produce useful daily software and which produce engagement metrics dressed up as features.

Credentials in detail

Editorial focus

Magdalena owns: the publication’s editorial direction, the 100-point rubric and its weights, the “Top Pick” gold-ribbon framework, final sign-off on every published score, and clinical safety review on tracking-adjacent content. She co-authors flagship rankings with Theron and gates any clinical claim through Dr. Vance-Habib.

Conflicts of interest

Magdalena has no financial relationships with nutrition app companies. She holds no equity in any tracking app vendor, maintains no affiliate accounts, and has never accepted sponsored compensation in exchange for review placement. Her income from this publication is salary-based and unrelated to ranking outcomes.

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