Make food logging part of your day

How the Nutrition areas work together

• Today: review totals for the Showing date and compare them with your targets. Missing nutrient information is different from a recorded zero.
• Diary: record meals and drinks you actually consumed. Open a meal to review its foods and amounts.
• Plan: organise future meals and build a shopping list. A plan does not count as eaten food.
• Foods: find reusable food records or create a private food from its label.
• Recipes: combine ingredients into reusable recipes. Community recipes are also available from the Nutrition menu.
• Trends: review daily values and compare meal balance over a chosen period.
• Insights: request optional AI coaching when your account and the service are eligible.
• Targets: set the daily values you want to compare with your intake.

Showing date controls the diary day and the end of Trends and Meal balance. Change it before logging an earlier meal. The meal editor uses that selected day. Planning has its own week selection, and Insights has its own review end date.

A useful starting routine is to set any targets you want, log your meals and drinks, review Today, then mark the day complete once you have finished recording it.

Quick start

Log what you ate

1. 1

   Check Showing date, open Diary and choose Add meal.

2. 2

   The meal uses the globally selected Showing date; change that date on the diary page before adding a meal. Enter the meal details, then choose Add food or Scan barcode. Search existing foods, scan a product or create your own food from the picker.

3. 3

   Select the food and choose how much you ate. Use Add another for more foods, or Add & review meal to return to the meal.

4. 4

   Review the foods, amounts and time, then save the meal. Adding a food to the picker does not save the whole meal.

Use Add recipe to choose from private or community recipes and record the amount consumed. The previous-meal action offers earlier meals of the selected type; review the copied ingredients and portions before saving. Open an existing meal to use its edit or delete controls when correcting the diary. Meal cards show their summary first. Open a card to see its foods and actions. Expanded cards are remembered for the selected day; switching days starts with collapsed cards.

Amounts that match your meal

Choose the portion you actually ate

Enter an amount in the food's base unit, or select an available serving. When a package size has been saved, you can use a full pack, part of a pack or a percentage. When a percentage field is shown, use the 10%, 25%, 50% or 75% buttons for a quick selection, or enter your own percentage. Available serving shortcuts depend on the food's saved details.

Find packaged foods

Scan or enter a barcode

Choose Scan barcode from the meal editor or food catalogue. Allow camera access to scan, or type the barcode digits to look it up.

• If a match is found, check the product and select your portion.
• If no match is found, enter the product name and nutrition from its label, then save it to your foods.
• Saved private foods keep their barcode for future lookups. If the barcode is already associated with a food, use that existing food instead of creating another.

Public sharing is optional. Private foods can leave unknown nutrients blank; a shared label requires the complete details requested by the form. Online catalogue lookups need a connection.

Find, create and reuse foods

1. Open Foods or use Add food inside a meal. Search by name and use the available filters and favourites to narrow the results.
2. Check the food name, brand, nutrition basis and serving details before choosing it. Similar names can describe different products.
3. If no suitable food exists, create a private food. Enter a clear name, optional description, brand and label basis. Record nutrients per that basis, rather than per the portion you happen to eat today.
4. Add package size and named servings when known. These make portion selection quicker when logging the food again.
5. Choose an optional Primary Food Group for the food itself. For example, soy sauce belongs in Sauces & condiments, rather than Legumes solely because it contains soybeans. Other ingredients can belong to different groups.
6. Save the food, then choose how much you consumed and save the meal. Saving a food record alone does not add it to your intake.

Leave unknown nutrient values blank. Use zero only for a known zero, and mark estimates where the form asks. Missing values can make a total incomplete or prevent a meal balance assessment. Favourite frequently used foods so you can find them again.

When a food name and non-empty brand match an existing food, check the warning before saving. Choose View existing food to compare its nutrition, Use this food to choose a portion, Keep editing, or Save separately for a different product. Different brands remain separate. Blank brands skip this name/brand warning; barcode checks still apply. Offline checks cover foods saved on this device.

Record label and allergen information separately

Primary Food Group describes the main food classification. It is separate from the ingredient list, dietary claims, and Contains or May contain declarations. Copy the information from the actual product label, including the specific cereal or nut where requested.

Use May contain for a warning stated on the label, rather than a guess about how a food was prepared. Review the ingredients and declarations when selecting a different brand or changing a recipe. A category, community rating or review outcome is not a guarantee that a food is suitable for your allergy or dietary needs.

Recipes carry ingredient information, so check the selected ingredient records as well as the recipe details. If the information is missing or unclear, check the product label before relying on the record.

Build recipes and use community recipes

1. Open Recipes and create a recipe with a name and number of servings.
2. Search for ingredients, choose the appropriate food record and enter each amount. Cups, spoons and other cooking measures need the equivalent weight or volume when requested so nutrition can be calculated.
3. Add the photo, preparation times, cooking steps and other details offered by the editor. Review ingredient amounts and the recipe yield before saving.
4. Choose Save recipe revision. Recipes can remain private; publishing is a separate action.
5. Open a recipe to adjust the servings you are viewing, review its ingredients and follow cooking steps. Premium members can listen to steps using their Profile voice preference.
6. To record eating it, use the diary's Add recipe action and choose the amount consumed. Viewing or scaling a recipe does not log it automatically.

Community recipes lets you search by recipe name or public creator username and use the available classification filters. Open a result to review it before adding servings to your diary. Use ratings to leave feedback and the report action for a problem with the published content.

Editing and saving creates a new recipe revision. Existing plans retain the revision they used, so review a plan if you intended it to use changed ingredients or servings.

Keep food private or publish it for others

Private foods and recipes are reusable without publishing. Public publishing requires Premium and an available review service; the page shows whether you have access. Shared food labels need the complete information requested by the form. Published recipes show your public username, which you set in Profile.

Before publishing, check the ingredients, label basis, nutrition, declarations, recipe steps and any dietary claims. Follow the outcome shown by the app: a request for changes needs correction, while a moderator referral needs review. Saving privately remains separate from making content public.

After editing a shared recipe, publish the updated revision when ready. Use the available make-private or withdrawal control if you no longer want to share it. Reports and moderation decisions concern published content; they do not replace checking the real product or your own requirements.

Once your published food is visible, search shows its public version once, marked Published by you. Its private source stays available to existing recipes and meal history without appearing as another selectable food. Use Edit public food to save changes, then Update public food to submit them for review. Making it private again restores private selection. Favourites follow the linked food; past meals keep their original nutrition.

Prepare your week

Plan meals and use your shopping list

Open Plan, select the week and choose Plan a meal. Add foods or recipe servings and save the planned meal.

Use the planned meal controls to edit, copy or delete a plan. When you eat it, choose Log planned meal, check the actual foods and portions, and save the diary meal. The shopping list is built from that week's planned meals. You can check items, adjust shopping amounts and add extras without changing the meal plan.

Your daily totals

Set targets and log drinks

Save daily calorie, nutrient and fluid targets to compare with your logged intake. Targets apply from the date shown; leave a target blank if you do not want to track it.

Use Hydration to log a drink's time, amount, type and optional note. Review the entries to edit or remove a mistaken drink. Fluid recorded with a meal is changed by editing that meal. If you already included the drink in a meal, record its fluid there rather than adding the same drink again.

Review your records

Check the day and follow your trends

Showing date controls the diary and daily totals. When you are viewing today, Nutrition advances to the new day at midnight or when you return to the app. A past day you selected stays selected.

When all meals and drinks are recorded, choose I've finished logging this day. This confirms that the diary day is complete; a partial or missing day should not be treated as zero intake. In Trends, choose a measure and a 7-, 30- or 90-day period. Use the daily values table to review dates, totals, targets and logging states.

Meal balance compares logged meals over 7, 14 or 30 days ending on the Showing date. Review your most balanced meals and meals to improve, with nutrient checks, portion totals and suggestions. Choose View diary meal to open that meal on its original day. Missing or estimated required nutrients are listed separately, never assumed to be zero. Expand How meals are compared for the comparison rules and limitations: this is not a complete health rating, and total sugars are not scored as added sugar.

Request optional Nutrition Insights

Insights is separate from the ordinary Trends charts and Meal balance comparison. It uses AI to review completed diary days against your own saved targets; it does not change your diary, targets or goals.

1. Open Insights while online and follow its access message. The current feature requires Premium, an adult account with a valid birthday, a UK home country in Profile, and an available service.
2. Read the information about what is processed and choose whether to enable Insights. You can disable it again from the same area.
3. Confirm the diary days you have finished logging. Open or missing days are not assumed to contain zero intake.
4. Choose a 7-, 14- or 28-day review period, an end date and a coaching tone, then request the review.
5. Read the feedback alongside its data limitations. If there is not enough information, complete your records or select a suitable period. Follow any service limit or retry message.

The review offers general wellbeing ideas, not medical advice or confirmation that your chosen targets are appropriate. If Insights is unavailable, the diary, targets and ordinary trend views remain available.

Keep your records available

Saving and working offline

Nutrition saves changes on this device and syncs them when a connection is available. Foods already available locally can be used offline; finding new online products and sharing need a connection.

Most connection issues retry automatically. If Nutrition updates to check appears, an update could not be saved to your account and its details have been kept safely on this device. Review the food details and save normally, or choose the available account version. A confirmed save removes its recovery copy automatically; if the same food details are already saved, no further update is sent.

Previous Nutrition updates contains optional copies of changes you already reviewed, not changes waiting to sync. Use Clear saved copy or Clear saved copies to remove these old copies without deleting your current foods or diary. You do not need to download a support file. Check the sync indicator before switching devices.

Common questions

• I cannot find a food: check the spelling and filters, try the barcode, or create a private record from the label. Online searches need a connection.
• The total looks incomplete: open the meal and inspect the ingredient amounts and missing nutrients. A blank nutrient is not zero.
• A planned meal is absent from Today: log what you ate; saving a plan alone does not record intake.
• A previous meal contains an unavailable food: refresh while online and review the copied items. Choose an available replacement if needed before saving.
• A meal is absent from Meal balance: check the selected date range, that it is logged, and the separate list of meals with insufficient data.
• I cannot publish or request Insights: read the access or review message. Premium, consent, eligibility and service availability can affect these optional actions.
• Another device does not show my changes: check that the original device has finished syncing before continuing elsewhere.

If a problem continues, contact support with the page, action, selected date and exact message. Do not include passwords or unnecessary personal information.