Hi,
First of all, thank you for taking the time to look over my question I'd really appreciate any feedback.
My question is regarding how Apple calculates their total calories on the fitness app. This would be shown in the "Move" section under the graph where it would say "TOTAL _____ CAL".
From researching online we could only find that Apple gets total calories from adding Active Energy Burned + Basal Energy Burned ( gathered from health kit ).
While implementing this calculation in our app, we noticed that our total calories calculation are off from the fitness app by 300-500 calories. We are collecting the Active Energy Burned & Basal Energy burned from Apple Health Kit and adding that up to get our total calories burned.
I'd like to know if we are missing something from this calculation, if we are missing something from health kit that we need to add into this equation, or its some type of configuration problem with our apple/watch/data?
Thank you once again for your help!