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 + Add food at the top of Day, right under the rings (the barcode button beside it opens the scanner), with the + in the bottom bar → Add food, 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 name, who makes it and what kind of food it is (for example Carl Buddig & Company · Pepperoni, salami & cold cuts, so two foods with the same name are easy to tell apart), 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 macros (the calories add up for you), 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. The expanded source builds add USDA Branded Foods, usable Open Food Facts products worldwide and the full usable UK CoFID food table; new records become searchable when the updated library is loaded. Chinese takeout is there under the names on the menu — crab rangoon, pork fried rice, beef teriyaki sticks, egg rolls and spring rolls, lo mein, General Tso's, sesame and orange chicken, beef and broccoli, egg foo young and more. House fried rice, dim sims, dumplings, honey prawns, salt and pepper squid and the takeaway stir-fries come from Australia's food tables (AUSNUT 2023, Food Standards Australia New Zealand, credited under each dish), many with a ready portion such as one spring roll or one dim sim. Home-style curries and dishes — chicken tikka masala, korma, vindaloo, dals, bhajis, pakoras, raita, saag, kofta, houmous and stuffed vine leaves — and a few takeaway dishes the US list lacks (crispy duck, egg fried rice, Szechuan prawns, prawn crackers) come from the UK's food tables (McCance and Widdowson's Composition of Foods, credited behind the ⓘ beside a dish's nutrition facts); 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 the barcode button beside + Add food at the top of Day (or tap + Add food, then the Scan tab), and point your camera at the barcode (or type the number under it). Hold the pack any way round — upright, sideways, upside down or at an angle — so you never have to turn the pack or your phone. 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; tap the ⓘ beside the food's nutrition facts to see the credit), and keep it so the next scan is instant; products already loaded in our library are found locally. 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.
Why do the calories fill in by themselves?
When you create a food or use Quick add, type the protein, carbs and fat and the calories add up for you: 4 calories a gram of protein or carbs and 9 a gram of fat. The sum shows under the calories (From your macros), so a number copied wrong shows straight away — 80 g of fat instead of 8 turns 212 calories into 860. Labels round their numbers, so the label may say 210 where the macros make 212; that's fine. If the label really says something else (drinks with alcohol, or sweets with sugar alcohols), tap The label says a different number and type it; we keep it and tell you how far it is from the macros. Use the macros goes back. Only need the calories? Leave the macros empty and type the calories.
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.
Can I log food from a photo in ChatGPT?
Yes, if your ChatGPT connection is allowed to save Nutrition (Account Management → ChatGPT connection). Send ChatGPT a photo of a food barcode and it reads the digits and finds the food. Send a photo of a meal and it names the foods it can see, looks each one up, and asks how much you ate wherever the picture doesn't show it. It then drafts the meal for you to review, and nothing is saved until you confirm. One Fitness Hub receives the digits or the food names, never the photo. A nutrition label can't become a food from ChatGPT: scan it in the app with Create a food → Scan the label. Portions in a photo are an estimate, so check the amounts before you confirm.
How do I save a meal I eat often?
Log it once, then tap Save meal under the timeline, 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.