Nutrition
Log food
Search, scan or create a food, then place it on the hour you ate it.
Your day is a timeline
Day is a timeline: your food sits under the hour you ate it, with each hour's calories and macros beside it, so there is no Breakfast, Lunch or Dinner to pick. Ate it at a different time? Tap the food and change its Time, or hold it (press and hold on a phone) and drag it onto another hour.
Add a food
Add what you eat with the + in the bottom bar → Add food, with + Add food under the timeline, or with the + beside an hour. Each food has a Time field (it starts at the time it is now, or on the hour you tapped), so you can add something you ate earlier today or on a past day. The foods you logged most recently, at any time of day, sit along the top — tap one to add it, or scroll sideways for more.
Search and portions
Type in the search bar at the bottom to find any food, and tap a food to choose how much. Search results show a picture of each food, its calories, protein, carbs and fat, and the portion. Each food shows its calories and macros up top; tap Detailed nutrition facts to expand the full table and other nutrients; weighed it? Pick grams or ounces and enter what the scale says.
When a search finds nothing
Tap Create “…” under the search and the food opens with the name you typed — add its serving and calories, save, and log it. Just need the calories? Tap Quick add beside it to log a name, calories and macros without saving a food.
Scan, create and recipes
The tabs along the top switch to Scan (a barcode or label), Create a food from its label, or Create a recipe. For a dish you make — a breakfast sandwich, rice and beef, pad thai — tap Create a recipe, add each ingredient with the amount you used, say how many servings it makes (and, if you like, what the finished dish weighs), then log a serving. Open a recipe and tap Edit recipe to change it.
Change an entry or another day
Tap anything you logged to change the amount or remove it. Use the arrows or the date beside them to look back at earlier days (Today brings you back).
Common questions
Where do the foods come from?
From USDA FoodData Central, the US government's public food database: thousands of everyday foods with the portions you'd use — a sausage link or patty, a hot dog, a burger patty, a slice of bread. Search the way you'd say it: hot dog finds frankfurters and burger finds hamburger patties, and the spelling doesn't matter for foods from other kitchens — daal, dhal and dal are the same search, as are roti and chapati, hommus and hummus, tabouli and tabbouleh, or kebab and kabob. Indian and Lebanese favourites such as naan, dosa, idli, samosa, biryani, paneer, falafel and tabbouleh are in the list with their usual portions, and it includes packaged foods sold in India and Lebanon. Home-style curries and dishes — chicken tikka masala, korma, vindaloo, dals, bhajis, pakoras, raita, saag, kofta, houmous and stuffed vine leaves — come from the UK's food tables (McCance and Widdowson's Composition of Foods, credited under each dish); they have no set portion, so enter them in grams or ounces (weigh your plate, or check a recipe's serving). Can't find something — a home-cooked dish, say? Scan its barcode (the short 8-digit codes on small bottles and cans work too, scanned or typed), or, when a search finds nothing, tap Create “…” to make it with the name you typed (or Quick add to just log the calories).
Can I scan a barcode?
Yes. Tap + Add food, then Scan beside the search box, and point your camera at the barcode (or type the number under it). There's nothing to tap: when the frame turns green it's read the code and looks it up. We look it up in Open Food Facts, an open database of packaged foods (its data is shared under the Open Database License, ODbL, credited under the food's facts), and keep it so the next scan is instant; many packaged foods from India and Lebanon are already here, so their scan is instant from the start. If nobody knows it yet, you get Create a food with the barcode filled in, and you'll find it next time you scan it. Just need the calories now? Tap Quick add there to log a name, calories and macros without saving a food. Foods you add — typed in, from a label scan or from a barcode — are recorded as added by you, so the club's admins can check them and add good ones to the shared food list. Your food log itself stays private.
Can I scan a nutrition label?
In Create a food, tap Scan the label and hold the Nutrition Facts panel flat inside the frame — upright or sideways, and no need to tap to take a picture. A line sweeps down the frame while it reads, the label's words light up as they're recognised, and a red box shows the label is being read; the chips underneath tick off Serving, Calories, Protein, Carbs and Fat with the number it read. Once it has them the box turns green, a check mark appears and the form fills in. Tap Use what's read to stop early, or Use a photo to take or pick one instead (in the Android app, choose Take a photo or Choose a photo). It's read on your phone and never uploaded; check each number against the label before you save. Flat and well lit works best.
How do I save a meal I eat often?
Log it once, then tap Save meal under the timeline (beside + Add food), tick the foods to include and give it a name. Next time, tap + Add food: your Saved meals are at the top. Open one, choose the Time and tap Add these foods to log all of them at once; you can still change or remove each one after. To delete a saved meal, open it and tap Delete saved meal twice.
Where are sodium, sugar and the other nutrients?
Open Nutrients on the Day tab: your totals for the day with the label's % Daily Value, for information only. Foods from a barcode or a label you scan usually list them; when only some of the day's foods did, it says how many.
My recipe's calories look off
Check each ingredient's amount — recipes add up exactly what you enter. If you weighed the finished dish, enter that weight so a serving matches what's on your plate.
Can other members see my foods or recipes?
No. Foods and recipes you create are yours. An admin may add a food you created to the shared food list, where it stays credited to you; your recipes are never shared.